Ten Years Ago: Stephen Colbert at the 2016 America’s Cup World Series New York Event
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Ten Years Ago: Stephen Colbert at the 2016 America’s Cup World Series New York Event
Nine years ago this week (!), the 2016 America’s Cup World Series New York at Brookfield Place, the event that inspired the creation of this blog.
(I took a bunch more photos, but I can’t unzip the file they’re in on my new laptop, so have these ones saved from Discord for now.)
Adventures of A Sailor Girl: America's Cup World Series New York 2016
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It's not the vid I was looking for, but this video does show the best, funniest moment from the 2016 America's Cup World Series New York-- the last race of the competition, when Team New Zealand got caught on the starting buoy and left behind while the race turned into a three-way fight between the US, Japan, and GBR... and then ETNZ caught a puff from behind and passed them all!
Keeron Wilson left Bermuda for England to become a specialist boat builder for SailGP.
In the summer of 2017, Keeron Wilson was an 18-year-old deckhand working on a spectator boat in Bermuda, serving cocktails and carving out a modest living as part of the island’s tourism industry.
He was aboard Calico Jack’s, a 60-foot motorized pirate-themed tour boat equipped with a diving plank and a busy bar in the central bay to the west of the island known as the Great Sound. It was a comfortable Bermudian existence.
Then a fleet of America’s Cup AC50 catamarans — 50-foot carbon-fiber flying behemoths — came shrieking past Calico Jack’s at speeds approaching 50 knots.
To the tourists on board, it was a photo opportunity.
To Wilson, it was a lightning bolt.
“To see those catamarans flying across the water at such high speeds, with no engines,“ Wilson tells The Athletic,speaking from the far less tropical setting of Southampton, on the south coast of England. “Just the science and technology behind it…
“I’m young, and everybody likes speed. I saw that and said, ‘I want to build those’.”
Almost a decade later, Wilson isn’t just watching such vessels from the sidelines; he is indeed building those very same 50ft catamarans, although now they have been repurposed, upgraded and souped up for SailGP, the global racing league which was launched in 2019.
An Animal America's Cup from Jay Laga’aia's adorable children's book/album, We've Got A Boat.
One-on-One with naval architect Paul Bieker, designer of the F-50 catamarans!
Andrew Campbell co-hosts US Sailing's American Sailor podcast