All in America's Cup
Gamers welcome at 37th America’s Cup || Scuttlebutt Sailing News
The America’s Cup yachting event is taking a leap into the virtual world with the launch of its official simulation video game, AC Sailing, along with its first-ever e-sports world championship, America’s Cup E-series.
AC Sailing is developed from the same physics engine used in the simulators that America’s Cup teams train with to enhance racing tactics and recreate race scenarios, as well as develop and test design ideas and iterations for their race yachts. The game is the culmination of over 10 years of research and development by Emirates Team New Zealand
By making it available, the event seeks heighten public engagement with the oldest trophy in international sports.
“Gamers will get to experience America’s Cup sailing as close to reality as possible like never before,” said Grant Dalton, CEO of America’s Cup Event. “We’re thrilled to bring this innovation legacy into the virtual world, elevating the role of sailing within the e-sports ecosystem.”
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Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast - Series 1 - Episode 2 - Ian Walker
There aren't many people in world sailing that have as many strings to their bow as British sailing's Ian Walker. But this podcast isn't just a chat about sailing. Ian's success around the race course is well documented, but he is a remarkable man, a thinker, with a cerebral approach to the sport that has finessed throughout all his years out on the water. But he's also a man that's known tragedy, adversity, and sadness, and in this candid interview with a man that also counts as a very dear friend, we talk all manner of topics, as I spend an hour in conversation with one of British sailing's leading characters.
His competitive career started in the Olympic arena with campaigns that led to silver medals in both Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. And then for the Athens Olympics of 2004 Ian turned to coaching, guiding myself and my team to a gold medal in the Yngling class, my second consecutive gold, and a milestone in my career.
His Olympic experience though makes up but a fragment of Ian's competitive experience. Following the Sydney games of 2000 Walker was straight into the America's Cup arena, skippering Britain's first Cup challenge in over a decade down in Auckland, New Zealand.
And as if that wasn't enough, Walker has also skippered three Volvo Ocean Race campaigns, three times leading a team of sailors around the planet on sport's longest, most gruelling endurance event. By the third campaign, on Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Walker's determination was relentless. As the race concluded, the team had enough points to win with one leg to spare, taking the illusive trophy in emphatic fashion.
Today, you can find Ian Walker behind a desk, nurturing Britain's Olympic sailing talent as Director of Racing at the RYA. It's a challenging role, the British Sailing team are the most successful Olympic sailing team of this millennium, a period of success that Walker himself helped kick off with those early silver medals. But as a former team mate, who's also been coached by Walker, I know our sport in the UK is in very good hands.
Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast - Series 1 - Episode 1 - Nathan Outteridge
Nathan Outteridge has been at the cutting edge of our sport for over a decade. A multiple World Champion, he's well known within sailing as one of the very best at making fast boats sail..... faster..!!
With a history racing dynamic, zippy two man skiffs, Nathan was perfectly placed to step into the fast paced world of foiling, as the sailing world became obsessed with speeding about above the waves. From the exciting one man foiling Moth to the drama and jeopardy of foiling America's Cup giants, Nathan has been at the forefront of the progression of our sport.