Without sound, the figure of the boat She is slender and seems even graceful. However, being with her, the roar is deafening, fruit of the speed and of the friction with the sea He Alinghi Red Bull Racing walks along the coast of Barcelona for several weeks because the Sailing America’s Cupalthough the competition is not held until September and October of 2024, has a lot to do in the city before, during and after.
With this Wednesday they already have 58 workouts. At the moment the swiss They are the owners of the sheet of water because their opponents (New Zealanders, American people, British, Italians and French) will not disembark in the Catalan capital until June, at which time they will necessarily have to rehearse with their monohulls.
Calculate wind and waves
They do not go unnoticed. In fact, they light up the W Hotel red the night before they go out to sea, when the Weather forecast He promises you a good day. One of the members of Alinghi Red Bull, the one who designs the enormous sails, describes what his colleagues are doing a few meters away: “The turns are tested on the buoy. high speed and that is when it rises with the ‘foil’, but when approaching the change of direction you have to reduce and calculate wind and waves”, says bradfavelle. In fact, to get into between three and six miles of the coast of Barcelona and practice, the AC40 It can reach 45 knots.
Three Pursuing Boats
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The Formula 1 of the sea drag dozens of engineers. In these sessions that cover the geography metropolitan (with the port cranes but also the chimneys of Sant Adria de Besos or the skyscrapers of Diagonal Sea) is not only the crew itself. three boats they chase the monocoque at the same speed: the team that tests it goes in two of them and the other is the ‘spies’.
Its about ‘recognized‘, the service of the organization that record and take photos every day you train drone included. and makes public team advances, so that everyone has the same information. Recognition professionals are just one more link in the Cup because the staggered arrival of teams it has only just begun. From Alinghi Red Bull there is already 120 people living in Barcelona, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Mataró… and roaring at sea.
The bases, in brief
He Port of Barcelona He has given you good news this Wednesday. They knew them because precisely one of the reasons why this destination was chosen was because it was not necessary build new infrastructure: in the next weeksLittle by little, the six teams will have their bases, where they will store their AC40s (and later the AC75s), they will have an administrative and reception space and even a store to sell products from their brands, explains a spokeswoman for Alinghi Red Bull.