Americas Cup: American Magic officially launches ‘Defiant’ AC75

Photos by Amory Ross / American Magic, video & text sent by American Magic media – Hull looks pretty strange, target clearly width for stability vs TNZ stepped hull aiming low drag. In contrast with hull AM75 Defiant Foils present at first glance a nice refined design vs TNZ ones. Some videos have shown a solid first sails for the American Team, and that is what counts right now. Plenty ahead to see how the AC75s will react in actual racing environment. The new concept works? So far, so good.

Later in the week a 1 to 1 CAD comparison vs our TNZ renders.

Report below says around 76.000 hours of built, whatever the final results for the AC75s, we are impressed by the design & building process to put such innovative and complicated platform on the water alone. Hat off for the members of every AC36 team involved.

DEFIANT, THE U.S. CHALLENGER’S FIRST AC75, IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED AND NAMED

Portsmouth, Rhode Island – After an estimated 76,000 combined hours of fabrication and finishing work by the production and shore teams of American Magic, the U.S. Challenger’s first AC75 racing boat was officially named and launched on Saturday morning. Named Defiant, the cutting-edge foiling monohull is the first America’s Cup class boat built to represent the New York Yacht Club in over 16 years. The boat underwent initial testing on Narragansett Bay earlier in the week.
 

Defiant was constructed at a dedicated facility in Bristol, Rhode Island, the site of America’s Cup boatbuilding efforts since the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company’s first Cup defender, Vigilant, was launched in 1893. American Magic will continue to train in Rhode Island waters during the fall of 2019 before relocating to Pensacola, Florida for the winter.