Alinghi Red Bull Racing BoatZero Day 41 Summary

Much excitement around the dockside today at the Alinghi Red Bull Racing temporary base out at the western end of the Port Vell in Barcelona as the team’s first AC40 arrived, shrink-wrapped in the distinctive McConaghy’s delivery livery and it will be all hands to the pump now to give the sailors a new, and very exciting, race boat to train on. But for the Monday morning sailors, the arrival of the team’s pocket-rocket was completely missed as they docked-out after 11am just as it arrived, launching their mainsail for what proved to be one of the most productive days on the water, so far, for the Swiss. The recon team noted that manoeuvres to port looked stronger than the ones to starboard with the team struggling to lock in the starboard foil completing some of the tacks and gybes but Lucien Cujean, a double Olympian at both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 in the 49er class for Switzerland, highlighted the difficulties saying: “As you see, we were struggling on one side compared to the other but as everybody knows we have an asymmetric boat with different shapes of foil on port to starboard but I think it's good to do more (manoeuvres) because we also learned the boat and we have no strong argument or conclusion about this type of choice (of foil) yet.” Section 41. Reconnaissance a) As a campaign cost reduction measure, COR/D has mutually agreed to cooperatively implement a centralised reconnaissance programme for all teams for the reconnaissance of all Competitors’ AC75 Yachts, AC40 Yachts and LEQ12 yachts including both on-land and on-water imagery (the “Joint Recon Programme”). b) Each team is assigned a two-person Recon Unit to follow their every on-water move, but it's not that simple. The cameras are supplied and identical for all Recon Units. Drones are not allowed, and they can't get that close, plus following a boat and keeping a camera steady at 45 knots isn't that easy to begin with. c) A three minute interview follows each on water day, and teams must answer the Recon Unit's questions while trying not to give too much away. It's a raw, unedited view of the never before seen behind-the-scenes development of a team and their boat to win the oldest trophy in international sports. #AC37Recon #AmericasCup #Barcelona2024