Alinghi has won the AC 2003 in Auckland,
New Zealand. As landlocked country with
no access to the sea the Swiss had to look
for a coastal town. In the closer selection
came Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples and
Valencia.
Someone in Naples set for 1 day into the
Internet the for Alinghi extremely lucrative
tender conditions. Valencia won the
contract
Bertarelli took with his AC management
company full control of the Cup events
including the LVC.
The IACC formula was changed with the
“Version V “(=Roman 5) towards a box-
rule.
The race values are set so tight that
little room for experimental design changes
was left. (similar to the car Formula 1) An
end of the IACC class was foreseeable,
when Alinghi introduced the new, but not
accepted V90 class.
Russell Coutts had a dispute with Bertarelli
and left the team with a severance and a
non-competition clause.
3 Yacht Club from new countries (Germany,
South Africa and China) deposited their
challenge. RSA 83 to SUI-100 altogether 17
new yachts were built. 11 of them were
sailing in the LVC resp. AC.
SUI-64 cut already in 2003 the head of the mainsail far aft. 2007 all teams followed this design with a
horizontal set up.
By the increase of the sail area on the mast-top, the faster winds there could be better exploited.
Emirates NZL failed to wrest the America's Cup from the defender Alinghi.
SUI-100 erfolgreiche
Verteidigerin des AC 2007
NZL-93 erfolglose
Herausforderin desAC 2007
As landlocked country with no access to the
sea the Swiss had to look for a coastal town.
Yacht / Country : “ALINGHI “ / CH
Sailnumber : SUI 100
Syndicate : Team Alinghi
CEO : Ernesto Bertarelli
Yacht Club : Societe Nautique de Geneve
Design : Grant Simmer, Rolf Vrolijk
Boat Builder : Decision SA, CH
Skipper : Brad Butterworth
Alinghi SUI-100 winner of the AC 2007
After SUI-100 won the AC 2007 many expected
that she carries the last IACC sail number, racing in
an America’s Cup. Ernesto Bertarelli proposed a new
mono-hull class AC90 which was not enthusiastically
accepted.
The reason might be that the not so very rich teams
were depending on the second-hand boats market to
start in the Cup at acceptable costs.
But the situation changed after the AC 2010 in favour
of catamarans anyhow.
No. 101 was given to the German Racing Team, as
they had finished a new mould, but they stopped the
construction very soon afterwards.
Many of the 100 IACC yachts were just trial boats or
have not been finished as SLO-4/1992. Number 13
was not issued to a team.
After SUI-100 won the AC2007 many expected
that she carries the last IACC sail number racing
in an America’s Cup.
No. 69 has been refused by the British challengers as a sexism symbol, but was accepted
by the French team without any problem.
The number stays with the yachts, but the country codes change with a new registration.
ITA-48 became RSA-48 when it was sold to Shosholoza
New Zealand NZL-92 won the LVC finals against Prada's "Luna Rossa ITA-94
but could not win the AC 2007
Comparing the situation with the AC 2003
the team recovered considerably under the
new management of Grant Dalton and the
sponsorship of Emirates Airlines.
From 2004 onwards the Louis Vuitton Cup
has been extended by the “Acts” where the
teams collected already points for the LVC.
New Zealands NZL –92 won the LVC in the
finals against Pradas ITA–94 by 5:0 but
missed the AC against Alinghi’s SUI-100.
Comparing the situation with the AC 2003
the team recovered considerably under the
new management of Grant Dalton
The bulb represents “Buzzy Bee” a wooden toy
which enjoyed generations of New Zealanders.
Yacht / Country : " NEW ZEALAND “, NZL
Sailnumber : NZL - 92
Syndicate : Team New Zealand
CEO : Grant Dalton
Yacht Club : Royal New Zealand Yacht
Squadron
Design : Mike Drummond, Clay Oliver,
Tom Schnackenberg
Boat Builder : Cookson Boats,
Skipper : Dean Barker, Bertrand Pace
AMERICA’S CUP HISTORY 1983 - 2013
