The big red spinnakers of Emirates Team New Zealand are back on the water at Valencia as the team gets ready for the build-up to the 32nd America’s Cup.
Emirates Team New Zealand’s big red spinnakers are back out on the Mediterranean Sea just off the coast of Spain as the countdown continues to the 32nd America’s Cup.
Emirates Team New Zealand has reassembled at their Valencia base and the race yachts NZL 84 and NZL 92 are being put through their paces. Since the yachts were flow in on 24th February, shore crew and engineers had been working to re-commission them for the restart of the testing programme.
This will be the final month of a project that started in 2003. As syndicate head Grant Dalton says, “There is no next year any more, it’s this year or never.”
Racing gets underway on April 3rd with Act 13 of the Louis Vuitton Cup. It is the match races of the Louis Vuitton Cup that will decide which team will go forward to challenge Alinghi in the America’s Cup.
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