Team New Zealand has maintained that part of creating the radical new design rule for the AC75 is a legitimate event cost and that it billed its sister company ACE for less than half of the 69m.

Ac75 monohull cost. The AC75 supplied parts identical for all the teams are the foil arms the foil cant system and the. 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. The ground-breaking new americascup class race boat concept.

Once news of a new monohull got out most assumed the boat would look similar to a TP52 or Maxi72. Legend Dennis Conner reckoned it would hike the cost of a competitive challenge up to 200 million. So it was surprising when the first renders of the AC75 arrived to reveal a foiling monohull with no keel and two cantable foils either side of the hull.

And though officially the class would not have a wing the solution looked rather like a soft sail designed to be a wing by any other name. On the ground from the early stages they are mak. Some interesting AC75 rules are.

Some Cup commentators have criticised the new boat as being too complex and too expensive. Teams do not disclose members pay but in 2015 a case for unfair dismissal in a US court brought by Joe Spooner a former sailor in Ellisons Oracle team revealed his salary to be 300000 a. Instead of a keel it has two canting ballasted T-foils to provide righting moment and the ability to self-right the boat in the event of a capsize.

The new AC75 will be a fully flying monohull. The AC75 Class represents a return to the monohull but with a revolutionary new interpretation featuring pioneering technology that opens up a new approach to yacht design. This should encourage teams to spend more time on research development and simulation and subsequently reduce physical construction and testing.

Philippe Briand and his team are dedicated followers of the Americas Cup having been main designer in no. The AC75 Class is a 75 foot high performance monohull governed by the AC75 Class Rule which was published on 29 March 2018. The Class Rule is open enough to guarantee a wide margin of freedom to the designers but introduces certain one-design elements for cost containment also.