Sport
Is it a boat, is it a plane? How the America’s Cup is turning into an air race – Sydney Morning Herald
Forget winged keels. In the modern America’s Cup, high-tech yachts worth tens of millions of dollars can complete an entire race without touching the water.
It is as much an air race as a sailing race.
How has the sport changed since Australia’s glory days?
Australian sailing great Iain Murray is the 2021 America’s Cup regatta director, and he puts it simply when asked how the sport has changed since the 1980s.
“It’s a different sport,” Murray told the Herald and the Age from Auckland Harbour.
Innovation has always been a part of the America’s Cup; few can forget the hue and cry about the winged keel of Australia II when it was lifted out of the water…
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