Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Red Bull Youth America's Cup update, Australian youth team Objective Australia head to San Franciso to start training on AC45 catamaran

From the following article submitted to Sail-World by Simon Reffold:

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Red-Bull-Youth-Americas-Cup---Objective-Australia-team-heads-off/112596

Red Bull Australia and NZ MD Jason Sargent joined Yachting Australia CEO Phil Jones today, in wishing Objective Australia Team members all the best in their preparations for the upcoming Red Bull Youth America’s Cup. Objective Australia is the team that will represent Australia in this upcoming inaugural series.

The event, an initiative of Red Bull, is the curtain raiser to the America’s Cup and will be sailed in the AC45 Class boats on San Francisco Bay from 1st to 4th September.

Three things mark this event as a standout; firstly the crews are all country of origin, returning to the original America’s Cup approach. The second is that the event is for youth teams 18-24 years of age. Finally, this is a fleet racing event, where the 10 country competitors will be head to head on the line in the exceptionally fast and exciting AC45 Catamarans that have been racing around the world for the past three years.


read more here

The teams facebook page is here

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