America's Cup Personalities In The News
James Spithill talks Made for TV sailing
Australia’s James Spithill, the winning helmsman from the 2010 America’s Cup in Valencia and now senior helmsman for the Oracle program, has been back ‘down under’ for the southern hemisphere summer.
Spithill headed to Perth 2011 to help coach his sister Katie’s Women’s Match Racing team and now he is at the John Cootes Furniture A Class Catamaran Australian Championships with three of his America’s Cup Oracle Team and a bunch of Aussie sailing mates. Read more »
Sailing in Marin: Hall-of-famer Cayard takes another shot at America's Cup with Swedish Artemis team
FOR A GUY who has achieved the highest awards in the sport of sailing, Paul Cayard must have just a small degree of frustration that the one prize that he's not been able to capture is the America's Cup.
The 52-year old, who was recently inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame, has a string of accolades behind him and has competed in events ranging from Round the World to the Olympics. But the Kentfield resident says he's still got plenty to achieve in the sport and he's working on it.
First, he'd like to win the America's Cup. Read more »
Wings, the Next Generation
Wanna have some fun? Set Paul Cayard loose on the subject of America's Cup 34, some re-imagined and surprising wing-control mechanisms, and the terrors of San Francisco Bay in full cry. The custom AC72 catamarans of 2013, he says, will be 30 percent more powerful but 'much less stable' than the AC45s that sailed three events this year on the America's Cup World Series circuit.
And occasionally failed to maintain verticality. Read more »
America’s Cup CEO is out amid management shakeup
The America’s Cup has undergone a shakeup of top management.
Craig Thompson, CEO of the America’s Cup business arm, has left the organization.
Thompson’s job will be taken over by Richard Worth, chairman of the America’s Cup Event Authority, which oversees the commercial side of the 34th America’s Cup to be held in San Francisco in 2013. Read more »
Sayonara - Ellison's 80' Maxi - Headed for Permanent Home on San Francisco's Pier 80
Having been holed up in Holland Michigan since the 2000 Chicago Mackinac Race, Sayonara, Larry Ellison’s 80’ Maxi is headed home. Her destination, Pier 80 in San Francisco which is currently HQ for Oracle Racing and ground zero for all things Americas Cup on SF Bay until the construction of the new piers on the City Front are complete. Sayonara was the launching pad for Larry Ellison into the yacht Racing World, his 1st foray into serious competition. In a conversation with his neighbor, one David Thomson back in 1994, the subject of sailing to Hawaii was brought up after listening to Thomson’s tales of the Transpacific Yacht Race, Larry was intrigued. David suggested building a Maxi, the largest legally allowed for the race, and without much debate Larry agreed, so long as it was designed to win. Read more »
