{"id":1381,"date":"2014-09-17T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.foilingweek.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2014-09-17T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:42:23","slug":"the-future-is-foiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/the-future-is-foiling\/","title":{"rendered":"The future is foiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m251_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904418C181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1382\" alt=\"the future is foiling\" src=\"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m251_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904418C181.jpg\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m251_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904418C181.jpg 864w, https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m251_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904418C181-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m251_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904418C181-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AC45s to be modified; America\u2019s Cup World Series to continue into 2018<\/p>\n<p>The six America\u2019s Cup teams have agreed to a project that will see the existing fleet of AC45 catamarans modified into fully foiling catamarans for racing in the America\u2019s Cup World Series (ACWS).<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the teams have also committed to continue to race the foiling AC45s on the America\u2019s Cup World Series circuit in 2018, following the conclusion of the 35th America\u2019s Cup in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1383\" alt=\"Luna Rossa modified AC45\" src=\"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m252_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904694454C.jpg\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m252_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904694454C.jpg 864w, https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m252_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904694454C-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m252_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904694454C-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased all of the competitors have agreed on a way forward, beyond the current America\u2019s Cup cycle,\u201d said Harvey Schiller, the Commercial Commissioner for the 35th America\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have the teams give certainty to all stakeholders as to what will happen following the racing in 2017, regardless of who wins, is a huge step forward for all involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teams have undertaken the project to modify the one-design AC45s into fully foiling catamarans with a view to racing the foiling versions as early as the 2015 ACWS season.<\/p>\n<p>A feasibility study has been commissioned to determine whether the mods will need to wait until the 2016 season as the timeline to make changes to the entire fleet ahead of racing in 2015 is extremely tight.<\/p>\n<p>The competitors have also appointed a working group to select a Regatta Director, as required by the Protocol.<\/p>\n<p>By \u00a0Americascup.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC45s to be modified; America\u2019s Cup World Series to continue into 2018 The six America\u2019s Cup teams have agreed to a project that will see the existing fleet of AC45 catamarans modified into fully foiling catamarans for racing in the America\u2019s Cup World Series (ACWS). Importantly, the teams have also committed to continue to race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,25],"tags":[178,192],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hp","category-web-news","tag-ac45","tag-americascup-com"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/m251_crop169014_1024x576_proportional_1410904418C181.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}