America's Cup News
‘Full steam ahead and scrambling to keep our heads above water’: Grant Simmer on Australia's Cup comeback
Few people are more bound up in Australia's America's Cup story than Grant Simmer. He was the young navigator aboard Australia II in 1983 – the boat with the wing keel that ended the New York Yacht Club's stranglehold and lodged...
The engineer in the cockpit: Vittorio Bissaro on Luna Rossa and AC38
In the wake of the 38th America's Cup Preliminary Regatta in Cagliari, Luna Rossa trimmer and aerospace engineer Vittorio Bissaro joins The Foil's Andy Rice for a chat about the Italian team assault on AC38, and doesn't shy away...
Exclusive interview: Tom Slingsby on Australia's America's Cup return
In this wide-ranging interview Tom Slingsby sits down with The Foil’s Andy Rice to give an inside look at the current state of the Australian America’s Cup campaign. The man widely regarded as the best sailor on the planet right...
GB1 first to start Naples America’s Cup base despite legal battle
GB1 are the first to be officially handed their plot of land at the Bagnoli America's Cup base and that matters more than it might first appear. A tense legal battle has brought the ownership of many of GB1’s assets into...
Podcast: Escalation in sailing's most explosive feud, SailGP repairs and the race to Halifax
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms The legal battle between Sir Ben Ainslie and Sir Jim Ratcliffe has taken another dramatic turn. In this week's episode of The Foil Podcast, Andy Rice, Freddie Carr and Neil Cole...
AC Recon: Luna Rossa's AC75 hits 40 knots on day one
The America's Cup has never been a sport for early finishers, and on Wednesday Luna Rossa proved that point once again. The Italians waited until the Cagliari sun was sliding towards the sea before lifting their AC75 off the...
Athena’s defence against Ineos: what it tells us about Ainslie vs Ratcliffe
Sir Ben Ainslie’s Athena Racing has launched a vigorous defence against Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos Racing over its claim of ownership of the AC75 that is planned to represent a British challenge for the 38th America’s Cup next...
Podcast: America's Cup is back! The full Cagliari debrief
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms The America's Cup is finally back, and after eighteen months of SailGP we'd almost forgotten how different it feels. So Neil Cole sits down with Freddie Carr and Lewis Smith –...
'Like watching jet fighters dance on water': How Luna Rossa lit up the AC38 opener
We may just have seen the start of Luna Rossa’s America’s Cup fairytale in Cagliari. The opening regatta of the AC38 cycle was about as good a weekend as the Italian Cup project could have asked for. For starters, Margherita...
