News Source: Ledger-Enquirer
| 6 days ago
The owner of the Italian entry in the America's Cup said Friday his boat will compete in this summer's races after all, but he suggested a new precaution. Speculation has swirled over whether Luna Rossa Challenge would pull out of sailing's most
News Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 6 days ago
Clouds hung over the America's Cup sailing regatta on Friday after investigators asked the teams to temporarily halt practicing on blustery San Francisco bay following a deadly accident last week. Organisers have said races will go ahead in July,
News Source: The independent
| 7 days ago
Suggested Topics America's Cup sailing in San Francisco has been grounded. Teams were staying ashore until today as a mark of respect to British Olympic gold medallist Andrew Bart' Simpson after he was killed in a training session on San Francisco
News Source: Willow Glen Resident
| 8 days ago
They streak across the water on 72-foot carbon fiber pontoons, faster by quantum leaps than their America's Cup predecessors. Their main sails tower 13 stories into the sky, not soft cloth like the old ones but rigid like airplane wings, unforgiving
News Source: New Zealand Herald
| 8 days ago
It was a tragedy that apparently America's Cup authorities did not see coming...Sir Russell Coutts admitted as much in an interview with the Herald last year. The AC72 is a workable class, albeit horrifically expensive, if the design is well thought-
News Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 9 days ago
The America's Cup will go on as planned after the death of a sailor during a training run last week on San Francisco Bay, officials said Tuesday. America's Cup officials made the announcement at a news conference in San Francisco. Organizers met with
News Source: Arizona Republic
| 12 days ago
Olympic gold medal-winning sailor Andrew "Bart" Simpson's death during an America's Cup training run on San Francisco Bay last week was the latest and most glaring setback to befall an event that had already encountered its share of rough waters.
News Source: BBC
| 12 days ago
The America's Cup has always been seen as the pinnacle of inshore yacht racing, known as much for controversy, complex rules, court-room wrangles and rich men posturing as cutting-edge design, world-class sailors and absorbing racing...But the 34th