It's a little known fact that masts makers Southern Spars built one of the Kiwi America's Cup winning boats. Emirates Team New Zealand mechanical engineer Martin McElwee explains which boat brought the Cup to NZ and how the lessons learned in the production of America's Cup masts at Southern Spars flowed both ways and even into boat building.
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A record 12 teams turned up in New York for the 6th event in the SailGP calendar, but the breeze was slow to the party. For most teams the tricky conditions made this a roller coaster ride though the points board.
The full PlanetSail review is now live online, here's a snippet of the action
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Why did Sir Ben Ainslie describe the latest America's Cup agreement as 'seismic' - Here's the trailer to our feature on what the changes mean and why this could be the biggest change for the Cup since its creation over 170 years ago.