Team Orient Express won the first competitive race of the initial regatta of the 37th America's Cup. Six entrants are now racing south of Barcelona in Spain.
The 37th America’s Cup sailing race will take place in the year 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. However, the first of three preliminary regattas before that event has kicked off in Vilanova i la Geltrú, a coastal city some 30 coastal miles [50 kilometers] south of Barcelona. Out of six racing teams from New Zealand, the U.S., U.
Although Friday was scheduled as the first day of racing, torrential rains cancelled all events. The first race took place on Saturday instead. Hours before the event, Stéphan Kandler, Team-Principal for the Orient Express Racing Team and founder of K-Challenge—together with Bruno Dubois—provided insights into how unique this race is compared to events held during previous decades.
‘The interiors of the boats have no ropes. No winches. We are like Formula 1 teams and the new generation of pilots must fly in these boats. And once you are flying, you need to stay flying all the time.’ Kandler is literal with the word flying. Aerofoils on these boats transform horizontal movement through water into vertical lift—in the same way that an airplane wing pushes the craft upward into the sky. The lift is so pronounced, the designs so hydrodynamic and aerodynamically fine tuned, the construction materials so light, that the bulk of these boats now rise out of the water and fly through the air during a race.
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