Luna Rossa boss Patrizio Bertelli has let the cat out of the bag around the key question of boat design for the next.

America's cup catamaran vs monohull. However the foiling boats we have seen in the last three editions of Americas Cup racing the AC72 and AC50 catamarans and now the AC75 monohulls do represent a. Foiling is all the rage in sailing. Two very unusual sailboats are tuning up on opposite sides of the world.

It made its Americas Cup debut on San Francisco Bay in 2013 when the Kiwis blew an 8-1 lead to Oracle Team USA in a showdown of 72-foot catamarans. Most people would agree that the berths in a monohull are much more spacious than in a catamaran. Americas Cup sail designer Burns Fallow reveals to Toby Heppell how the soft wing sail concept will work for the new AC75 foiling monohulls After Emirates Team New Zealand took back the Americas Cup in Bermuda in 2017 team CEO Grant Dalton was clear that while they had enjoyed the latest editions of the Cup.

The AC75 is the bold new high performance fully foiling monohull. The design rule for the 36th Americas Cup is the most audacious yet. The AC75 Americas Cup 75 class is a 75ft sailboat class governing the construction and operation of the yachts to be used in the 2021 Americas Cup.

In Auckland teams will race around in monohulls. The 36th Americas Cup kicks off in early 2021 and there will be plenty of big changes from Bermuda especially between the size of the yachts. The facts would prove Conner right and the unsurprising victory of his small 1830-metre LOA catamaran Stars Stripes against the huge 2743-metre LOA monohull New Zealand would remain forever the most incongruous Americas Cup.

Monohull Had anyone but New Zealand won the 35th Americas Cup in Bermuda four years ago the boats for the 36th Cup would still have been catamarans. When its not flying a hull. The boat type is a foiling monohull with canting ballasted T-wing hydrofoils mounted on port and starboard topside longitudinal drums a centerline T-wing rudder and no keel.

Since then the increase in performance for Americas Cup boats has been greater than at any point in the 170-year history of the event. Render comparison by Americas Cup. That is the defining feature of the AC75.