Americas Cup Class A good thing to come of the entire 1988 fiasco was a new class of boat that featured a more modern design that could perform well in the lighter winds of San Diego.

What type of boats are used in america's cup. The stakes are sky-high. The new Americas Cup boats are getting faster and faster. Despite a more traditional bow - that gives a nod to those of the old Americas Cup boats - the sheerline is quite pronounced and tapers towards the transom.

Salthouse now drives the teams chase boat and handles logistics and in typical Kiwi fashion he. Britannia 18 months in the making. 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.

GRANT DALTON CEO Emirates Team New Zealand We are really proud to present the concept of the AC75 today. The Americas Cup Class a type of boat built to a design rule. Though the Americas Cup was first raced for in 1851 and won by the schooner America from which the trophy gets its name this race was between a fleet of boats.

The 3642 metre Shamrock V commissioned by Sir Thomas Lipton for his fifth and final bid she was the first J Class yacht to compete for the Cup. The AC75 Designed to Fly. How the Americas Cup is.

Salthouse was a mainsail trimmer for most of those campaigns but the AC45 and new AC72 wingsail multihulls have changed the ballgame considerably. Its a freak of science 75 tonnes of technology flying above the water precariously latched to the surface by less than two square. Luna Rossa reveals monohulls back for Cup.

It is a winner-takes-all format. The Americas Cup AC75 boat concept revealed. The protocol for the 2013 Americas Cup mandated that seventy-two-foot winged catamarans would face off in Ellisons home port of San Francisco.