Setting Sail For The Cup
Sail|April 2017

Dozens of racers and cruisers are bringing their own boats to AC35.

Adam Cort
Setting Sail For The Cup

It’s been a strange Cup cycle. For all the press releases and hoopla surrounding the America’s Cup World series, AC35 continues to feel somehow distant—no surprise given it’s taking place off a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean—and this sense of distance has been only exacerbated by the lack of Cup boats. Until now.

As this edition was going to press, the five challengers and the defender, Oracle Team USA, were finally launching the AC50s aboard which they will compete beginning next month, after having expended a mandatory 28-day “blackout” period during which the boats could not be sailed.

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