LONDON (Reuters) - Designing, building and eventually sailing the new breed of America's Cup boats will pose "one hell of a challenge", Land Rover BAR's new CEO Grant Simmer said on Tuesday. Simmer was reacting to the radical concept design of a 75-foot foiling monohull to replace catamarans revealed by holders Emirates Team New Zealand for the 36th America's Cup in 2021. "It's not a boat like any of us has sailed before," the four-times America's Cup winner told Reuters by telephone from British challenger Land Rover BAR's headquarters in Portsmouth on the south coast of England. That's why I did it," Simmer said of his move to Land Rover BAR, whose campaign to bring the cup back to Britain Ainslie expects to cost some 100 million pounds. "Ultimately it will be a hell of challenge to sail a boat like this ... We'll get there, it's definitely do-able."

Source: The Star November 21, 2017 14:26 UTC