Radical 75ft flying monohull could be fastest Americas Cup design ever Emirates Team New Zealand has unveiled the new AC75 monohull for the next Americas Cup.

America's cup 75 foot monohull. Team New Zealand claim the performance models of the giant 75-foot monohull. The sleek 75-foot monohull boat which will defend the Americas Cup when the venerable sailing trophy is contested in March for the 36th time since 1856. Its a smaller slower and safer version of the Americas Cup AC75 the 75-foot foiling monohull with 11 crew that will sail in the 2021 Americas Cup.

The 36th Americas Cup Match the race to claim the oldest trophy in. One question will be whether the monohulls will be foiling boats or not. Emirates Team New Zealand via AP.

Americas Cup A 75 foot high performance monohull The Protocol of the AC36 was released The Protocol of the 36th Americas Cup was released today at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron after a focused and friendly period of negotiation between the Defender and the Challenger of Record Circolo della Vela Sicilia following Emirates Team New Zealands victory in the Americas Cup. Now though the quiet period for Americas Cup news looks set to. The concept of the new AC 75 Class which Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa design teams have developed together will open new horizons for racing yachts which in the future may also extend to cruising.

Initial design concepts and drawings will be released at the end of November. The 44-year-olds team got off to a terrible start when unable to use the hi-tech arms that allow the 75-foot monohull to fly above the water they lost all six races in Decembers World Series. However delays to the manufacture of the mission-critical canting foil arms which will support the 75-foot single-hulled yachts in flight have prevented all the teams from completing the first of two boats they are allowed to design and build under the rules of the 36th Cup.

This week sees his creation Te Rehutai a 75-foot monohull that has clocked up speeds of 57 knots face the ultimate test. The new Protocol that was announced for the 36th Cup stated that the AC75 Class of boat 75-foot boats would be the new competing monohull. It will have a crew of 11 and will have a top speed of about 63 mph.

Final design rules will be released in March. This is not a return to the past but rather a step towards the future. The choice of a monohull was a fundamental condition for us to be involved again in the Americas Cup.