207m plus 2m bowsprit.

Ac75 crew positions. Designers and sailors have had to find new techniques to get the boats to accelerate and take-off onto the foils. There will be plenty of improvements to come on how teams will manoeuvre the boats but so far both teams seem to have decided on fixed positions for their grinders who wont cross sides during tacks and jibes. The 23 m monohulls featured wing-like sailing hydrofoils mounted under the hull a soft wingsail and no keel.

For part 1 of the interview click here. For what its worth ETNZ lists their crew this time around as. The 36th Americas Cup in March 2021 was the latest staging of the Americas Cup yacht race.

The AC50s topped the scales at 2440kgs and the IACC class used for the 1992-2007 period topped the scales at a massive 24000kgs 19000kgs of ballast almost 35 times the weight of the similarly dimensioned AC75. The AC75 rule also sets limits on the positions of different components and overall centers of mass and so this must also be monitored. On all the AC75s the crew positions are designed to keep crew low down to improve aerodynamics.

It all makes weight management a much tougher job than with. An anxious tension hovers over the crews. 1 Helmsman 1 Trimmer 1 Flight Controller 2 Offside Control 6 Grinders 11 Total So more than half the crew just grind all race.

All four AC75s have a central beam running the length of the cockpit. The spectacle of an AC75 at speed in flight is breathtaking but to learn to fly these boats at speeds that have rarely been achieved has meant that teams have had to climb a near vertical learning curve. Introducing the ETNZ sailing crew.

Sailing aboard the AC75 are 11 crew members each with a different function. 12-Meter crews waging Americas Cup warfare on the windswept waters off of Fremantle Western Australia in 1987. Part 2 of the interview with Burns Fallow a North Sails designer and long time member of Emirates Team New Zealand on the development of the AC75 class rule and how the various components of the AC75 are expected to interact.