NYYC American Magic AC40-5 Day 28 Summary

NYYC American Magic kicked off May with what Paul Goodison described as “pretty close” to the all-time speed record onboard their AC40 in LEQ12 development mode as the Pensacola speed merchants pushed ‘America’ to the absolute limit in big breeze on Monday. Speaking afterwards Paul Goodison gave a pretty breathless account of the day saying: “It was pretty full on and as you can see the boat’s just ripping and great to see how well the boat performed on the new foil wing, we’ve seen some really impressive speeds both upwind and downwind…The bear-aways were obviously very tricky, going through the power zone and the turn ups at the bottom were very tricky trying to make the boat as wide as you can and get as much grip as you can in the turn up…we were experimenting a little bit with two boards in and seeing how we work on the on the grip to get through - a couple of nice ones, a couple of not so nice ones, but it's just a learning process and again we got more data and more practise and stepping in the right direction.” 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