Spying on competitors can be both dangerous and costly. An alternative now implemented in the America's Cup sail races is to gather and share information collectively.
Support boat at America's Cup‘Dan Bernasconi, Technical Director at Emirates Team New Zealand, came up with the idea. He’s a British yacht designer who used to work with Formula 1. He thought—let’s open technology up a bit.’
Crews of chase boats typically look at the design of boats they follow. ‘That’s key,’ Wheatley continued. ‘They’re also looking at sail shape and modes of the boat—how you cant foils, how you change the arm of the foils, because you can ride low, high, bow down, stern down, windward heel, leeward heel. They’re marrying that to wind conditions and saying, ‘Okay, it’s 18 knots of breeze, and Emirates Team New Zealand is riding like this.
‘We’re also looking to bring the story to the public with small details. Say, ‘American Magic is running the fifth iteration of the G foil, and the difference between that and the last foil is ...’ All that data is in the cloud for anybody within the America’s Cup structure to look at.’
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