From the following article submitted to Sail World by Richard Gladwell:
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?nid=122447
For the past few weeks two designers from Oracle Team USA and Emirates Team New Zealand have been giving an almost two hour presentation in various venues around New Zealand, as part of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ centenary celebrations.
Sponsored by leading New Zealand engineering consultancy, Beca, the free-entry presentation has travelled to six centres in the North and South Islands and has attracted packed houses.
The two design engineers Andy Kensington from Team NZ and Neil Wilkinson from Oracle, both graduates from New Zealand universities have been involved in America's Cup teams for 13 and 23 years respectively.
Kensington opened running through a few of the differences between AC72 technology and the earlier monohulls used in the America's Cup and looked at the canting keelboats. Then he turned to why Emirates Team NZ settled on the foiling concept from the outset.
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Showing posts with label Emirates Team New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emirates Team New Zealand. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 May 2014
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Extreme Sailing Series update, Emirates Team New Zealand return to contest 2014 season
From the following press release by the Extreme Sailing Series:
http://www.extremesailingseries.com/news/view/emirates-team-new-zealand-go-extreme#.Ut70cK99LFd
Emirates Team New Zealand have today been confirmed as the tenth team on the Extreme Sailing
Series™ starting blocks for 2014, with legendary America’s Cup skipper Dean Barker. With a further Series team announcement in the coming weeks, a full grid of 11 teams will embark on the eight stop global tour, which starts in Singapore in just over four weeks, with the first starting gun on the 20th February.
London 2012 silver medal winning 49er duo Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, who last week were announced as part of the Kiwi development squad for the 35th America’s Cup, will join Barker. While the pair are currently campaigning for the Rio 2016 Olympics, Barker and Burling will share skipper duties, as Barker explained: “I will skipper five. We will rotate sailing squad members through the other crew positions. Between the two of us we will be able to field competitive crews through the year.”
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http://www.extremesailingseries.com/news/view/emirates-team-new-zealand-go-extreme#.Ut70cK99LFd
Emirates Team New Zealand have today been confirmed as the tenth team on the Extreme Sailing
Series™ starting blocks for 2014, with legendary America’s Cup skipper Dean Barker. With a further Series team announcement in the coming weeks, a full grid of 11 teams will embark on the eight stop global tour, which starts in Singapore in just over four weeks, with the first starting gun on the 20th February.
London 2012 silver medal winning 49er duo Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, who last week were announced as part of the Kiwi development squad for the 35th America’s Cup, will join Barker. While the pair are currently campaigning for the Rio 2016 Olympics, Barker and Burling will share skipper duties, as Barker explained: “I will skipper five. We will rotate sailing squad members through the other crew positions. Between the two of us we will be able to field competitive crews through the year.”
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| Emirates Team New Zealand back to contest 2014 series, photo courtesy Extreme Sailing Series |
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
34th America's Cup, new book "Winging it" by Diane Swintal, R. Steven Tsuchiya and Robert Kamins
From the following article:
http://www.wingingitbook.com/
Winging It: ORACLE TEAM USA’s Incredible Comeback to Win the America’s Cup (McGraw-Hill Professional/International Marine, 224 pages with 37 b/w photos, 12 charts and illustrations)
The book is now available at online sellers and in bookstores. More information on availability
One of the Greatest Comebacks in Sports
Millions of sailing enthusiasts and casual fans alike watched the 2013 America’s Cup in awe as ORACLE TEAM USA, trailing one point to New Zealand’s eight and on the brink of losing the trophy to the Challenger, came back to win eight straight match-point races to successfully defend the most famous trophy in sailing.
The 2013 America’s Cup was raced in 72-foot wingsailed catamarans at speeds of 40-50 miles per hour in San Francisco Bay. Designed and engineered by each team, these multihulls were unprecedented, using hydrofoils to race in close quarters around an inshore course, watched by tens of thousands of spectators.
http://www.wingingitbook.com/
Winging It: ORACLE TEAM USA’s Incredible Comeback to Win the America’s Cup (McGraw-Hill Professional/International Marine, 224 pages with 37 b/w photos, 12 charts and illustrations)
The book is now available at online sellers and in bookstores. More information on availability
One of the Greatest Comebacks in Sports
Millions of sailing enthusiasts and casual fans alike watched the 2013 America’s Cup in awe as ORACLE TEAM USA, trailing one point to New Zealand’s eight and on the brink of losing the trophy to the Challenger, came back to win eight straight match-point races to successfully defend the most famous trophy in sailing.
The 2013 America’s Cup was raced in 72-foot wingsailed catamarans at speeds of 40-50 miles per hour in San Francisco Bay. Designed and engineered by each team, these multihulls were unprecedented, using hydrofoils to race in close quarters around an inshore course, watched by tens of thousands of spectators.
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award 2013 awarded to Abner Kingman for his stunning photo of Emirates Team New Zealand's near capsize while racing their AC72
From the following article on Sail-World submitted by MaxComm Communication:
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?Nid=117539&refre=y&ntid=0&rid=1
A jury made up of specialists from the yacht racing and photographic industries chose Abner Kingman’s photograph taken during the 34th America’s Cup for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award 2013. The delegates from the World Yacht Racing Forum chose Rick Tomlinson’s photograph for the «Public Award».
82 professional photographers spanning nineteen countries took part in the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2013. US photographer Abner Kingman, based in San Francisco, won the main award further to a selection made by an international jury consisting of nine specialists from the yacht racing and photographic industries (see list below). Rick Tomlinson (UK) won the prize of public.
Aged 44 and the father of two children, Abner Kingman, has been awarded for his photograph of Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA, taken during race 8 of the 34th America’s Cup in San Francisco (USA). The shot captures the precise moment when Oracle Team USA took over the lead on Emirates Team New Zealand whilst ETNZ almost capsized; the turning point in the last America’s Cup. 'As Emirates tried to tack on top of Oracle, their wing articulation hydraulics failed and they couldn't trim properly,' explains winner Abner Kingman. 'I was shooting from the aft deck of the television catamaran when they started to capsize, it seemed to unfold in slow motion. Finally, their starboard hull came down with a splash. It took a moment for ETNZ to get sorted out and start sailing again, while Oracle went on to win the race, and then nine more of the next 11 races.'
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http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?Nid=117539&refre=y&ntid=0&rid=1
A jury made up of specialists from the yacht racing and photographic industries chose Abner Kingman’s photograph taken during the 34th America’s Cup for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award 2013. The delegates from the World Yacht Racing Forum chose Rick Tomlinson’s photograph for the «Public Award».
82 professional photographers spanning nineteen countries took part in the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2013. US photographer Abner Kingman, based in San Francisco, won the main award further to a selection made by an international jury consisting of nine specialists from the yacht racing and photographic industries (see list below). Rick Tomlinson (UK) won the prize of public.
Aged 44 and the father of two children, Abner Kingman, has been awarded for his photograph of Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA, taken during race 8 of the 34th America’s Cup in San Francisco (USA). The shot captures the precise moment when Oracle Team USA took over the lead on Emirates Team New Zealand whilst ETNZ almost capsized; the turning point in the last America’s Cup. 'As Emirates tried to tack on top of Oracle, their wing articulation hydraulics failed and they couldn't trim properly,' explains winner Abner Kingman. 'I was shooting from the aft deck of the television catamaran when they started to capsize, it seemed to unfold in slow motion. Finally, their starboard hull came down with a splash. It took a moment for ETNZ to get sorted out and start sailing again, while Oracle went on to win the race, and then nine more of the next 11 races.'
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| 'San Francisco (USA CA) - 34th America’s Cup - Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image of the Year 2013' Abner Kingman |
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
America's Cup news, New Zealand government steps in with five million dollars of interim funding to allow Emirates Team New Zealand to maintain key staff
From the following article submitted to Sail-World by Richard Gladwell:
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-NZ-Govt-backs-Team-NZ-with-limited-funding/115929
The NZ Government has announced that it will provide Emirates Team New Zealand with $5million of interim funding to allow the team to retain key members ahead of the 35th America's Cup.
The funding comes before the team has made a decision whether or not to Challenge for the trophy it failed to win by an 8-9 margin last month in San Francisco.
The amount provided is half that provided in 2010 - but that was covered by an agreement signed between the Team and the previous Labour government.
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http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-NZ-Govt-backs-Team-NZ-with-limited-funding/115929
The NZ Government has announced that it will provide Emirates Team New Zealand with $5million of interim funding to allow the team to retain key members ahead of the 35th America's Cup.
The funding comes before the team has made a decision whether or not to Challenge for the trophy it failed to win by an 8-9 margin last month in San Francisco.
The amount provided is half that provided in 2010 - but that was covered by an agreement signed between the Team and the previous Labour government.
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Monday, 21 October 2013
America's Cup update, Emirates Team New Zealand surprised by strength of support after unsuccessful 34th America's Cup challenge
From the following nzherald.co.nz article by Paul Lewis:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11143157
In a strange way, Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison and archrival and Oracle Team USA chief executive Sir Russell Coutts have played key roles in the reviving fortunes of Emirates Team New Zealand.
The syndicate's skipper, Dean Barker, says he, boss Grant Dalton and most other ETNZ people thought they were "done" as a team after OTUSA pulled off that spectacular, gutting comeback to defend the America's Cup.
Ironically, says Barker, the "amazing" support in New Zealand for a beaten team at least partly came about because of Ellison's and Coutts' much maligned vision of 'a summer of sailing' in the compelling AC72 catamarans. The well-publicised capsizes, the death of Andrew Simpson, the much-criticised danger and on-the-edge nature of the boats (with Dalton doing some of the most vociferous criticising) saw only three challengers turn up and, of them, only ETNZ were able to foot it with Oracle.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11143157
In a strange way, Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison and archrival and Oracle Team USA chief executive Sir Russell Coutts have played key roles in the reviving fortunes of Emirates Team New Zealand.
The syndicate's skipper, Dean Barker, says he, boss Grant Dalton and most other ETNZ people thought they were "done" as a team after OTUSA pulled off that spectacular, gutting comeback to defend the America's Cup.
Ironically, says Barker, the "amazing" support in New Zealand for a beaten team at least partly came about because of Ellison's and Coutts' much maligned vision of 'a summer of sailing' in the compelling AC72 catamarans. The well-publicised capsizes, the death of Andrew Simpson, the much-criticised danger and on-the-edge nature of the boats (with Dalton doing some of the most vociferous criticising) saw only three challengers turn up and, of them, only ETNZ were able to foot it with Oracle.
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Saturday, 19 October 2013
34th America's Cup, Cup experience blog compiles links to videos of all 19 races
Thanks to John Cadwallader for this link. Cup experience have compiled a post with links to the videos and notes on all of the 19 races in the 34th America's Cup.
http://www.cupexperience.com/blog/2013/10/videos-of-all-19-americas-cup-races
http://www.cupexperience.com/blog/2013/10/videos-of-all-19-americas-cup-races
Friday, 18 October 2013
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Friday, 27 September 2013
Thursday, 26 September 2013
America's Cup final, Oracle Team USA stage amazing comeback and retain the America's Cup
Oracle Team USA today retained the America's Cup with a thrilling come from behind victory in the final do or die deciding race in San Francisco.
In the end their upwind foiling technique was once again what made the difference, enabling them to power past the Kiwis upwind and turn a three second deficit at the leeward gate into a 26 second lead at the end of the beat and a 44 second winning margin at the finish.
ETNZ had grabbed the early advantage off the start to hold the controlling inside berth at the first turing mark and lead for the entire downwind leg. Oracle survived a huge nosedive just before the turn but remarkably were quickly up and running again.
By the start of the second half of the run they .were hot on the Kiwis heels again - less than a boat length directly behind at times - and when the teams split at the leeward gate there was just three seconds between them.
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Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Monday, 23 September 2013
Saturday, 21 September 2013
America's Cup final, Emirates Team New Zealand vs Oracle Team USA
No racing today in the America's Cup final it's postponed until tomorrow.
Friday, 20 September 2013
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
America's Cup final, races 11 & 12 Emirates Team New Zealand vs Oracle Team USA
No racing today wind limits mean races 11 & 12 delayed until tomorrow.
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