Jul 28, 2020 | sloop-blog
American Magic completed a milestone five-hour sailing session on Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour on Monday. The team’s AC75 racing yacht, DEFIANT, had been dormant since concluding its final training day at the team’s winter base in Pensacola, Florida... Apr 24, 2020 | sloop-blog
Like everyone in the world, the America’s Cup is not untouched by the effects of the COVID19 Coronavirus. Very quickly it became apparent that the unavoidable but regretable cancellations of the much anticipated ACWS events in Cagliari and Portsmouth would have to... Mar 24, 2020 | sloop-blog
The supermaxi Comanche broke the transatlantic record for monohulls (west to east) in July 2016, taking more than a day off the record. Here’s how No sailing record has a more storied history, or is harder to beat, than the transatlantic record. At... Mar 16, 2020 | sloop-blog
The next edition of The Ocean Race, scheduled to start from Alicante, Spain in October 2021, will visit 10 international cities, including the start port and the Grand Finale finish in Genoa, Italy in the summer of 2022. For the first time, The Ocean Race is now open... 