Without sound, the shape of the boat looks subtle and even elegant. However, being near it, the roar is deafening, as a result of speed and friction with the sea. Alinghi Red Bull Racing has been walking on the Barcelona beach for several weeks because America’s Sailing Cup, although the competition is not held until September and October 2024, there is so much to do in the city before, during and after.
With this Wednesday they already have 58 workouts. At the moment the owners of the water table are the Swiss, because their rivals (New Zealanders, Americans, British, Italians and French) will not land in the Catalan capital until June, at which time they will have to rehearse with their monohull boats by necessity. .
Calculate wind and waves
They don’t go unnoticed. They even light up Hotel W in red the night before we set sail, when the weather promises a good day. One of the Alinghi Red Bull members, who designed the massive sails, describes what his teammates were doing just meters away: “The turns on the float are tested. It takes a lot of speed and that’s when it rises with the ‘foil’, but as you approach a change of direction you have to reduce and calculate the wind and waves,” says Brad Favelle. In fact, going between three and six miles from Barcelona beach and training, the AC40 can reach 45 knots.
Three Tracking Boats
This Formula 1 of the sea drags dozens of engineers. Covering metropolitan geography (the port’s cranes, the Sant Adrià de Besòs chimneys, or the Diagonal Mar skyscrapers), these sessions are not just a team. Three boats chase the monohull at the same speed: the team that tested it goes with two, the other ‘spies’.
This is ‘Recon’, the service of the organization that records and photographs every day you train, including with the drone. AND makes team progress public, so everyone has the same information. Recognition professionals are another link in the Cup because the gradual arrival of teams has only just begun. From Alinghi Red Bull there are 120 people living in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Mataró, Barcelona, roaring in the sea.
bases in short
The Port of Barcelona gave them good news this Wednesday. They knew this because one of the reasons this destination was chosen was precisely because there was no need to build new infrastructure: Over the coming weeks, it will gradually sell the six teams’ AC40s (and Alinghi Red Bull spokesperson, later the AC75), an administrative area, a reception desk, and even their brand’s products. announced that he would own a store.
Without sound, the shape of the boat looks subtle and even elegant. However, being near it, the roar is deafening, as a result of speed and friction with the sea. Alinghi Red Bull Racing has been walking on the Barcelona beach for several weeks because America’s Sailing Cup, although the competition is not held until September and October 2024, there is so much to do in the city before, during and after.
With this Wednesday they already have 58 workouts. At the moment the owners of the water table are the Swiss, because their rivals (New Zealanders, Americans, British, Italians and French) will not land in the Catalan capital until June, at which time they will have to rehearse with their monohull boats by necessity. .
Calculate wind and waves
They don’t go unnoticed. They even light up Hotel W in red the night before we set sail, when the weather promises a good day. One of the Alinghi Red Bull members, who designed the massive sails, describes what his teammates were doing just meters away: “The turns on the float are tested. It takes a lot of speed and that’s when it rises with the ‘foil’, but as you approach a change of direction you have to reduce and calculate the wind and waves,” says Brad Favelle. In fact, going between three and six miles from Barcelona beach and training, the AC40 can reach 45 knots.
Three Tracking Boats
This Formula 1 of the sea drags dozens of engineers. Covering metropolitan geography (the port’s cranes, the Sant Adrià de Besòs chimneys, or the Diagonal Mar skyscrapers), these sessions are not just a team. Three boats chase the monohull at the same speed: the team that tested it goes with two, the other ‘spies’.
This is ‘Recon’, the service of the organization that records and photographs every day you train, including with the drone. AND makes team progress public, so everyone has the same information. Recognition professionals are another link in the Cup because the gradual arrival of teams has only just begun. From Alinghi Red Bull there are 120 people living in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Mataró, Barcelona, roaring in the sea.
bases in short
The Port of Barcelona gave them good news this Wednesday. They knew this because one of the reasons this destination was chosen was precisely because there was no need to build new infrastructure: Over the coming weeks, it will gradually sell the six teams’ AC40s (and Alinghi Red Bull spokesperson, later the AC75), an administrative area, a reception desk, and even their brand’s products. announced that he would own a store.