“This team didn’t exist three years ago, and now we have three boats built and two AC75s launched,” said Marcelino Botin, American Magic’s lead designer. Patriot was built in Bristol, Rhode Island, by a 50-strong team and then shipped by cargo plane 9,000 miles to Auckland.Ĭonsidering the America’s Cup’s ambitious timetable, and the unexpected time pressures Covid-19 put on design and production of Patriot in Rhode Island, it’s amazing that this yacht came through so well. As the boat changes tacks, the cant system is activated, placing one hydrofoil in the water, and lifting the other one out, where its weight becomes ballast. The foil-cant system uses new technology that employs a battery-driven, hydraulic-power unit to raise and lower the strong, but very heavy, foil-cant arms, that give the boat its stability and speed. On the last two generations, the sails were much stiffer sail-wings that many non-Cup racers complained about because there was no trickle-down technology for the rest of the sailing world.īeneath the water, Patriot also has an interesting breakthrough design. The double-sail skins combine with the spar to generate the power the AC75 needs to foil. Another new evolution for this America’s Cup is the twin-skin mainsail on the 87-foot-tall mast. If it does capsize, the crews can right the boat much easier than the previous generations of foiling racers. Patriot’s foil-cant arms are also designed to move both under or outside the boat to provide the leverage to keep it upright. While America’s Cup teams do not release top speeds, it’s estimated that the AC75 boats break the Cup’s “sound barrier” at about 50 knots, or 57 mph. Like its competitors Lunna Rossa from Italy, Britannia from the UK and the America’s Cup defender, Te Aihe from New Zealand, American Magic won’t divulge technical details about Patriot, beyond the fact its steering station is more forward than on Defender. “The Mule” was the first prototype that American Magic built to train its crew on at its facility in Pensacola, Florida, and that basic design was followed by Defender, a more complex boat that has been decommissioned since Patriot’s arrival. That’s a great validation of our shore team and all of the work put in since we launched the Mule in 2018.” Despite having a brand-new boat that we were all excited about, the whole session felt normal. “Straight away, we came into 21 knots, and we were into it. “We went off the dock thinking that if the breeze filled in, we’d have a good sail,” Terry Hutchinson, skipper and executive director of American Magic, said after the sail. GM Didn’t Win Le Mans, but It Put Motorsport on Notice. This L.A.-Based Airline Just Bought 250 Hydrogen-Powered Plane Engines for Carbon-Free Flying Ford CEO Says Tesla Cybertruck Is for ‘Silicon Valley People’ Not ‘Real People Who Do Real Work’
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