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Chicago America's Cup World Series - June 10-12
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ACup-Nachrichten 2016 für 35th Americas Cup 2017
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23 May 2016
The Duchess Goes Foiling with Sir Ben
Chicago AC World Series
Parkour Team Tours Groupama Team France Base
Lessons from 2013: Complex Systems & Crew Errors
Ask Jack: How to Offload a Penalty
The Duchess Goes Foiling with Sir Ben
Her Royal Highness Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is the Royal Patron of the British team and was recently in Portsmouth to open the team's new education centre with STEM curricula for UK schoolchildren. She also went for a sail.
The Duchess of Cambridge showed she's quite the sailor, taking the helm on Land Rover BAR's T1 test boat.
Flying on T1. Maybe the team was training on T1 to get ready for the AC World Series in Chicago - it is close to the configuration of an AC45, with tiller steering, crew sitting on the hull and no grinding pedestals.
All photos in this article by Lloyd Images.
Easy to recognize, and not just by the pretty smile - no commercial branding on her sailing gear, just her title.
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Public viewing is along the shoreline of Monroe Harbor with the breakwall along the Shedd Aquarium and the Planetarium forming tiered viewing areas. The race course will be located inside the outer harbor breakwater with designated spectator areas for boaters eager to get up close to the action on the water.
Grandstand event passes have sold out, but General Admission single day and weekend passes are still available. Ticket info here. And, the latest event news and short videos are on the event's Facebook page, here.
Groupama Team Base
Lorient, France is the the home of Groupama Team France. Skipper Franck Cammas prepared here for his winning Volvo Ocean Race campaign and for his successful 2010 record-setting non-stop circumnavigation to take the Jules Verne Trophy. By the way, the navigator on board Groupama 3 for that record-setting run was Stan Honey, who led the development of the LiveLine augmented reality graphics for the the ACTV broadcasts. And, Cammas's record was broken in 2012 by Banque Populaire, skippered by Artemis Racing's Loïck Peyron.
Even with the smallest budget in this America's Cup cycle, Franck Cammas and Team France are a force to be reckoned with. Cammas is just as ferocious a competitor as the other skippers in this America's Cup cycle. Don't be surprised to see Team France in the semi-finals of the Challenger Playoffs in June 2017.
Video: Here's an unusual way to tour their base.
Lessons from 2013: Learning to Sail a Complex Boat Takes Time
The systems for daggerboard control on the AC Class race boats will be extremely sophisticated. All the teams will need time to master the complexity. In 2013, Oracle Team USA won Race 4, their first victory, in spite of a crew error with the daggerboard controls. Eliminating errors like this will be a key to success in Bermuda in 2017. In this video, listen as Artemis helmsman Nathan Outeridge explains what happened.
America's Cup Race 4 Gate 2 US board error
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23.05.2016 - Chicago America's Cup World Series - June 10-12
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