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18.04.2016
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Issue 12 | 18 April 2016 In this issue: Land Rover BAR launches "T3" test boat Another 49er championship for ETNZ's Burling and Tuke ETNZ roster: 79 team members, 11 nationalities
Land Rover BAR Launches Third Experimental Boat

A close look at the three experimental boats launched by Land Rover BAR lets us see how the evolution in their test program.

Land Rover BAR's "T2" - notice how the rudders are mounted. You can see the cable and kingpost understructure. The crew are in cockpits with grinding pedestals and the boat has wheel steering. The crossbeams were wider, approximating the dimensions of the AC Class yachts that will race in 2017. Image: Land Rover BAR.

Notice the rudders hung off the stern on Land Rover BAR's new "T3" test boat. Image: Land Rover BAR

"T1" had no cockpits, no grinding pedestals and tiller steering. The understructure was cables, like on a standard AC45, but had no forward kingpost, since the boat was not intended to sail with a gennaker. The crossbeams were the standard AC45 beams, so the boat had the same dimensions as an AC45 rather than the wider AC Class that will be raced in 2017

Ben Ainslie's first test boat was a slightly modified AC45: tiller steering, no grinding pedestals, no cockpits and the original crossbeams and understructure. T2 had wheel steering, cockpits and pedestals but surprisingly stayed with cables for the understructure and did not have a pod under the wing. Now they have launched their third experimental boat. The new "T3" AC45X boat has a pod under the wing. The clearly visible differences are the pod and the rudders hung well off the stern of the boat. Hanging the rudders off the stern allows the designers to get closer to the dimensions between the rudders and the foils that the 50 foot long AC Class race yacht will have. The test boat must respect the rule that the its hulls must have the same lower shape as an AC45, but the new rudder mounts give the effect of a longer hull.

T3's wing appears to have a shape similar to Oracle's latest wing. Both of them are probably the dimensions of an AC Class wing, but they will certainly have very different control systems. Image: Land Rover BAR
Yet Again! Burling and Tuke Win their 25th 49er Regatta in a Row
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke continue their unprecedented run of 25 consecutive regatta wins after winning their 4th straight 49er European Championship in Barcelona, Spain. They have not "lost" since they took the silver medal at the 2012 Olympics.

Burling and Tuke had the fleet on the back foot from the start, winning six of the first nine races. Going into the double points medal race, they were 44 points ahead of Australians Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen of Artemis Racing, and had an unassailable lead. The margins by which Burling and Tuke have been winning regattas have their competition scratching their heads and wondering what it will take to beat them in Rio this Summer.
The duo have a few days off before traveling to France to make preparations for their next 49er event, the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres, France from 22-26 April. They then jump on a plane direct to New York to rejoin Emirates Team New Zealand for the next event of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series where they currently lead the overall standings.

Outteridge and Jensen sailed strongly and locked up second place before the medal race but still finished 60 points behind Burling and Tuke. Spaniards Diego Botin and Iago Lopez Marra took third.

ETNZ Roster: 10 Sailors in a Team of 79
Emirates Team New Zealand has a new web page showing the 79 members of their team, including their team principal, Swiss billionaire Matteo de Nora, who has backed the team for years while staying out of the limelight. The team counts 11 nationalities. Ten sailors are listed; half of them are grinders. One of those grinders is Gilberto Nobili who sailed with Oracle in the 2013 America's Cup in San Francisco. Three of the sailors were on the winning New Zealand Youth AC team in San Francisco - helmsman Peter Burling, trimmer Blair Tuke and grinder Guy Endean. Those three, together with tactician Ray Davies and team skipper Glenn Ashby have been the crew on the AC45F in the America's Cup World Series, which they currently lead.
We hope to have news soon about when the Kiwis will launch their AC45X experimental boat. They and the French are the only teams not to have an experimental boat with grinding pedestals and dimensions close to the AC Class yachts that will race in 2017. For testing, the team has been using a modified AC45 on loan from Luna Rossa.

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