Team New Zealand’s determination to test the limits of the AC75 has cost them a second capsize. The America’s Cup defenders went over at high speed while training in Auckland on Saturday morning in north-easterly winds exceeding the limits set down for racing. Emirates Team New Zealand were the first to capsize one of the radical foiling 75-foot monohulls in December in a slow-motion tip-over in the inner harbour. EMIRATES TEAM NZ Team New Zealand crew on Te Aihe during their December capsize. Te Aihe, Team New Zealand’s first generation AC75, is a development boat in the final phase of its work ahead of the launch of the syndicate’s second boat that will be used to defend the America’s Cup in March.

Source: Stuff October 11, 2020 06:11 UTC