NYYC American Magic AC40-5 Day 27 Summary

NYYC American Magic rolled out yet another upgrade to their starboard foil on Friday on the AC40 in LEQ12 mode out in Pensacola for a brilliant session that saw Lucas Calabrese take the helm for the first time along with Andrew Campbell who also had a turn. Calabrese and Campbell are key Flight Controllers for American Magic and these are valuable days for the team to build in knowledge and experience. Andrew Campbell, always a perfect interviewee, gave an interesting assessment of the day saying: “There’s a lot of things to be done on days like today when it's so steady and the sea breeze is in and locked in and the boat’s, you know, performing well we can go through a lot of setting changes that make subtle differences to our performance that only show up in the data with those small changes. So, it's a perfect day to have a small change make an impact on our performance and be able to see that curve through the data at the end of the day. That was our priority today just to make sure we were kind of hitting that. Oftentimes, the optimums are really soft, you know, you'll see a few different angles are giving you a really very similar number and it's only days like today where you can see which ones are actually the best.” 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