On the AC75 Giles Scott is calling tactics for skipper Ben Ainslie.

Ac75 displacement. The AC75 Americas Cup 75 is a racing yacht used in the 2021 Americas Cup match and planned to be used for the 37th Americas Cup and 38th Americas Cup matches. M for safety reasons. In mere seconds the AC75 goes from low-speed displacement sailing in as little as 10 knots apparent wind speed to high-speed foiling in excess of 50 knots apparent wind speed.

It will be a displacement monohull that is good for traditional match racing. Of the Americas Cup. The top four metres is known as the Upper Zone and the bottom 15metres is the Lower Zone.

Foils aside the AC75 is a relatively normal monohull with a conventional hull a rig that is not dissimilar to other high-performance yachts and will be sailed with a crew of 12. The AC75 Class rule is very exciting because the design space is really open and theres a lot of time spent at the engineering stage to cater for. It will allow designers more freedom with the only advanced restrictions intended to ensure that competitors prowess will remain as homogeneous as possible.

This monohull with ballasted foils surprising as it is. The 23 m 75 ft monohulls featured wing-like sailing hydrofoils mounted under the hull a soft wingsail and no keel. Or n as the result of an unintended breakdown as determined by the Measurement Committee.

In between is the largest area of the sail which Fallow refers to as the Passive Zone. L as slack rigging or woollies. The minimum wind speed of 6-knots should give you a.

Throughout the race the teams will constantly adapt their sail plan up and down the apparent wind range. On their blank sheet of paper or rather their monitors they started from a rather basic box rule with a hull length of 2070 meters a maximum beam of 5 m a displacement of 76 tons. While Team New Zealand has maintained that part of creating the radical new design rule for the AC75 was a legitimate event cost and that it billed for less than half of the 69m spent MBIE.