To start with the AC75 is big - 75-feet long and 16-feet wide - but its also light which is crucial because the AC75 is designed to fly.

Ac75 height. Foil Cant Arms move under or outside the boat to provide the leverage it needs to stay upright. 207m plus 2m bowsprit. Radical 75ft flying monohull could be fastest Americas Cup design ever.

Emirates Team New Zealand christened their first AC75 at their team base in the heart of the Americas Cup village in Auckland. THE AC75 AT A GLANCE. The boat was christened Te Aihe Dolphin by Marcus Gerbich member of the MND Foundation and blessed by Ngati Whatua.

With a minimal ballast package and a mast height of around 90ft the AC75 would be expected to have some stability issues when floating upright or alongside a dock When the boat is floating upright the righting moment is quite low due to the small keel weight for that size of boat 2-3 tonnes of keel weight Bernasconi says. 580 m 2 6200 sq ft wing and gennaker estimate The AC72 Americas Cup 72 class is a wingsail catamaran box rule governing the construction and operation of the yachts that was used in the 2013 Louis Vuitton Cup and the 2013 Americas Cup. By Mark Chisnell January 8 2021.

It is a happy coincidence that in both modes - displacement and foiling - that we only require a short rig. Its also different rather than a keel a. Americas Cup AC75 in numbers.

As the camera tends to flatten off the appearance of the sea-state - the only way to judge the conditions is by the frequency of the breaking water. Sail area upwind with Solent. Hoisting the twin-skin mainsail on the AC75 requires the boat be stabilized while an intricate package of sails battens and top-secret internal control systems are fed aloft into the dual luff.

207m plus 2m bowsprit. Then when you pop out on the foils the apparent wind speed rockets up and therefore you dont need a very big rig. Nowadays foils are commonplace but the engineering and sailing techniques needed to get the AC75 to fly are completely different from anything seen before.