America's Cup News
Recon from the Hauraki Gulf: Unpacking ETNZ's first week back with Taihoro
Emirates Team New Zealand have now logged three of their 45 permitted AC75 sailing days in the January 2026–January 2027 window. Taihoro, the AC75 that won the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona, is back on the Hauraki Gulf –...
GB1 back on the water and wasting no time in Cagliari
GB1, the rebranded British Challenger of Record, hit the water for the first time since AC37 last week – and there was nothing tentative about the return. The team took their AC40 out in Cagliari in conditions that would test any...
France reveals stacked AC38 crew as K-Challenge becomes La Roche-Posay Racing Team
The French challenger for the 38th America's Cup has a new name, a new title sponsor and a crew that reads like a greatest-hits compilation of Olympic and professional sailing. K-Challenge will compete in Naples as La Roche-Posay...
Freddie Carr: The spectacle I can’t wait for in AC38
OK, I’m calling it right now. What will be the sickest thing in the next America’s Cup? Seeing the youth and women coming through the AC40s and racing alongside senior team-mates in the preliminary regattas will be brilliant. New...
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 16 March ’26
From Sydney Harbour skiff chaos to Cape Horn crossings, Kiwi AC75 recon to a new 470 title in Vilamoura, it's been another stacked week across the sailing world. Here's everything you need to know… Britain’s Martin Wrigley and...
Tom ‘Mozzy’ Morris: The AC75’s dramatic diet – and why it gives ETNZ an early edge
The return of Taihoro has revealed the AC38 rule change where Emirates Team New Zealand hold a clear advantage. It’s not the introduction of battery power. It’s not the politics of the Cup partnership. The change to watch in this...
AC38 crew line-ups slowly coming into focus
Both Luna Rossa and GB1 are out training in Cagliari this week, their AC40s carving up the Bay of Angels as the countdown to the first preliminary regatta of the 38th America's Cup ticks under 70 days. Come May 21-24, a maximum...
Podcast Ep. 10 - Batteries replace humans: is this still the America's Cup?
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms The America's Cup sprint is officially on. Team New Zealand have rolled their AC75 out of the shed in Auckland, and for the first time in the Cup's 175-year history, there won't...
The battery-power revolution that’s bigger than F1’s
If you happened to watch the Formula 1 season opener in Melbourne this past weekend, the commentary and narrative around the race was dominated by one thing: battery power. Is this the world the America's Cup is heading toward?
