VIDEO: February foiling on new AC45

ORACLE TEAM USA looks ahead to its February foiling session in San Francisco where the team will test its new foiling AC45. Video published on Feb 4, 2015.

Note: The Protocol for the 35th America’s Cup established limits on the type of boats that entered teams can use for training, testing and/or development of hulls, decks, appendages, wings and/or soft sails for an AC62 Yacht. However, the current Protocol allows for the use of a yacht with…

“the ‘platform’ of an AC45 Yacht that complies with the AC45 Class Rule; and a catamaran with the outside surfaces of its hulls the same shape as the outside surfaces of the hulls of an AC45 Yacht below a line that is 650mm below the intersection of the hull centreplane and the top of the hull of an AC45 Yacht, except in way of AC45 Yacht daggerboard and/or rudder casings and/or bearings and modified daggerboard and/or rudder casings and/or bearings.”