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After the April 2009 ruling GGYC said it would "immediately seek to negotiate with the Defender for a conventional, multi-challenger America's Cup in monohulls."However SNG indicated that they would not negotiate for a multi-challenger regatta and would fall back to a default Deed of Gift match, that is three races over a 40- (first and third race) or 39-nautical mile (second race) course ...
The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. [1] [2] [3] America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one from the yacht club that currently holds the trophy (known as the defender) and the other from the yacht club that is challenging for the cup (the challenger).
The Challenger of Record for the 34th America's Cup was Club Nautico di Roma, whose team Mascalzone Latino had competed in the challenger selection series for the 2007 America's Cup. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] In September 2010, the GGYC and Club Nautico di Roma announced the protocol for AC34, scheduling the match for 2013 in a new class of boat, the AC72 ...
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Sailing with a rigid wing sail, she won the 2010 America's Cup, in a Deed of Gift match against SNG/Alinghi Valencia. 17, an AC72 catamaran for the 2013 America's Cup defence. Extensively damaged in a 16 October 2012 capsize. Oracle Team USA 17, an AC72 catamaran. Successfully defended in the 2013 America's Cup. 17, [17] AC50 wing sail catamaran.
2010 Valencia: Alinghi Alinghi design team Decision S.A. ... Herreshoff Marine Museum — America's Cup Hall of Fame This page was last edited on 20 October 2024, at ...
The 37th match from 12 to 19 October 2024 was the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's eighth America's Cup match and their fifth America's Cup victory, winning in 1995, 2000, 2017, 2021 and 2024 (losing in 2003, 2007 and 2013) - making it the second most successful club in the competition's history. RNZYS has appeared in every America's Cup ...
Conner has won the America's Cup three times, successfully defending the Cup in 1980 and 1988, and winning as the challenger in 1987.His 4–3 loss in 1983 to Australian Alan Bond's wing-keeled challenger Australia II was the first Cup defender to be defeated in the 132-year history of the race, simultaneously ending a run by the New York Yacht Club that began with the first contest.