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New York YC’s Invitational Cup Draws Global Talent

  • By Stuart Streuli/New York YC
  • September 5, 2023

Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup

The enduring allure of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is most evident in the teams and sailors from around the globe that return to this seaside city every two years to compete in sailing’s premiere Corinthian big-boat regatta. For the eighth edition, which will start on Tuesday, September 12, and run for five days, there will be just two new clubs participating: Corinthian Yacht Club from Marblehead, Mass., and Yacht Club Punta Del Este from Uruguay. Both come in with lofty aspirations and a healthy respect for the competition and the unique challenges of this ultimate one-design regatta.

“In 2024, Yacht Club Punta Del Este will reach a remarkable 100 years of being active, and being asked to attend this event is a fantastic way to start off this special year,” says Aldo Centanaro, the tactician for Uruguayan team. “This is a great opportunity for us to make new friends and give our best effort in the upcoming races. It’s an exciting chance for us to show our skills and perform to the best of our abilities.”

The Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is a biennial regatta hosted by the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court in Newport, R.I. Since the event was first run in 2009, it has attracted top amateur sailors from 51 of the world’s most prestigious yacht clubs from 22 countries. After five editions in the Swan 42 class, the 2023 event will be the third sailed in the IC37, designed by Mark Mills. The strict one-design nature of this purpose-built class combined with the fact that each boat is owned and maintained by the New York Yacht Club, will ensure a level playing field not seen in any other amateur big-boat sailing competition. The regatta will run from Saturday, September 9, through Saturday, September 16, with racing starting on Tuesday, September 12. A live broadcast on Facebook and YouTube, starting on Wednesday, September 13, will allow fellow club members, friends, family and sailing fans from around the world follow the action as it happens. Nineteen teams from 14 countries will compete in 2023. The 2023 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is brought to you by title sponsor Rolex and regatta sponsors Helly Hansen, Safe Harbor Marinas, Peters & May and Hammetts Hotel.

With the entry from Yacht Club Punta Del Este, Uruguay becomes the 22nd country and the second from South America to compete in the Invitational Cup. Yacht Club Argentina has raced every edition except for the regatta’s debut in 2009. The YCA’s finishes have ranged from eighth to 16th, but the South American club has left a distinct impression as a three-time winner of the Corinthian Spirit Award, which is voted on by the competing teams. This year, the Argentine team may have some competition in that department, from their neighbors across the Río de la Plata.

“Our main goal [for the Invitational Cup] is to sail fast and be as smart as possible on the water,” says Centanaro. “We want to have a great time, make friends and treat our hosts and fellow racers with respect.”

And that’s not to discount the Uruguayan team’s chances of a strong finish. Helmsman Santiago Silveria won a bronze medal in the Snipe Class at the 2003 Pan American Games and finished fourth in the J/24 and the 2007 Pan Am Games. He’s also won major championships in the 49er and J/70 class. Centanarao has also found success in the J/70 class—finishing third at the 2018 Corinthian J/70 Worlds—and the Laser.

“In August, we attended training sessions in Buenos Aires sailing a Soto 33, which shares similarities with the IC37,” says Centanaro. “Once we’re [in Newport], our focus will be on sailing the new boat as much as possible. We aim to learn the essential techniques and strategies before the main race begins.”

Physically the road to the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup for Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, Mass., will be the shortest of any team competing in 2023. The famous Boston seaport is less than 100 miles from the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court, closer even than the host club’s iconic home on 44th Street in Manhattan. However, as is the case for any American club hoping to compete in the Invitational Cup, the figurative pathway is maybe more difficult to navigate than the regatta itself.

Corinthian YC team

Corinthian’s journey started in 2016, when it applied for a berth in the Resolute Cup, the feeder competition for the Invitational Cup, which is run on even years. The venerable Massachusetts club, which occupies a sprawling shingled manor overlooking Marblehead Harbor, finished second in the silver fleet in 2016 and then eighth overall in 2018. After the 2020 Resolute Cup was cancelled due to COVID, Corinthian showed up in 2022 with a revamped team led by veteran trimmer Doug Sabin and a precocious young helmsman by the name of Wade Waddell. The result was a convincing win and a berth in this year’s Invitational Cup.

The four sailors who won the Resolute Cup form the core of the Invitational Cup squad. Among those brought on board to round out the crew for the IC37, which typically sails with between eight and 10 people, is Tim Wadlow, a two-time Olympian in the 49er class and former college sailor of the year at Boston University. Once the crew was selected, the team planned training in Newport and back home in Marblehead. With limited experience in the class, and big boats in general, it’s a steep hill to climb in a short period of time.

“It’s the biggest boat I’ve ever raced and skippered, but it feels like a dinghy, it’s very maneuverable,” says Waddell. “I have a ton of confidence in my teammates. Tim has full reign on the tactics upwind and downwind. I have an amazing trimming team and bow team and pit, that makes my job a lot easier, and I can really just focus on keeping the boat going fast around the course.”

Wadlow has been a committed dinghy sailor for all of his life, whether it was chasing an Olympic medal in the 49er or competing in world championship team racing events. But he’s enjoying this foray into big-boat racing.

“I’ve got two kids and a business, but I still love sailing at the highest level,” says Wadlow. “Wade put together the team and won the Resolute Cup and was like ‘Hey, are you going to come help me?’ I said, ‘Absolutely.’ It’s such a cool boat, it’s totally one-design.”

With an intimate knowledge of what it takes to compete at the sharp end of the sport, Wadlow offers a measured response when asked about his team’s progress.

“I feel like we’ve gotten to where we’re at least playing the game, but I think the last 5 to 10 percent are going to be a lot harder to learn,” he says. “We’ve had more success on the course [inside Narragansett Bay]. Flat water and shifty wind seem to suit us really well. We did really well downwind [at the National Championships in July]. A lot of the 49er stuff that I’ve done applies [to the IC37]. I’m comfortable downwind.”

The final stage of preparations for each of the 19 teams competing will take place in the days before the regatta, with the boats available for training from Wedneday, September 6. Mandatory practice starts on Sunday, September 10, with the first race on Tuesday, September 12. A live race-by-race broadcast of the regatta will start on Wednesday, September 13.

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IC37 One Design Fleet Will Guarantee Bright Future for the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup

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After a decade of incredible competition with the Swan 42 one-design, the New York Yacht Club is proud to announce the new class that will carry the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, sailing’s premiere Corinthian interclub competition, into its second decade, and beyond.

Production on the IC37, designed by Mills Design with support from KND-Sailing Performance and SDK Structures, will start in the next few months. A fleet of 20 37-footers, all owned and maintained by the New York Yacht Club, will be available for the 2019 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup. The fifth Invitational Cup will be sailed this September in 15 Swan 42s. [ You can read the answers to a number of frequently asked questions by clicking here .]

“A decade ago, we created a new class of boat and a ground-breaking international sailing competition,” says Commodore Philip A. Lotz. “Both have been tremendous successes. The first four editions of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup have set a new standard for interclub competition, bringing amateur sailors from 43 yacht clubs from 21 countries to compete off Newport. The Swan 42 was an instant success with 18 boats competing in the class’s inaugural national championship in 2007. More recently, the design has found tremendous success in handicap regattas around the world. The dispersion of the class away from the Northeast United States has made it harder and harder to get enough boats to meet the continued interest in the Invitational Cup. To ensure the future of this great event, the Club decided to build its own fleet of raceboats. From 19 submissions from top yacht designers around the globe, we have selected a 37-footer drawn by Mark Mills. We think it’s the perfect choice to carry this regatta forward and build upon the substantial legacy established by the Swan 42.”

Unlike the Swan 42, which was built to cruise and race both around the buoys and offshore, the IC37 is purpose-built for competition. The flush deck, square-top main, open cockpit and wide beam carried all the way to the transom are all hallmarks of a thoroughbred raceboat, designed to be pushed hard on all points of sail.

“It’s definitely a planing downwind design,” says Mills, who founded his eponymous design firm in 1996. “We tried to find a displacement that produces that outcome, but still provides a boat you can build within the determined cost envelope and doesn’t leave you lacking stability going upwind. It will be an exciting boat to sail.”

Since the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is a Corinthian regatta sailed in supplied boats, the design brief also specified that the boat be sturdy, relatively straightforward to sail and welcoming to amateur sailors.

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“One of the goals was to accommodate a wide range of ages of both genders,” says Mills. “It would be easy to do a lighter boat that’s very aggressive and very dynamic and required burly 20-somethings to sail it. But that would fail against the requirements of the club. We’re trying to create a boat that’s light and high performance, and can be sailed aggressively by a wide variety of sailors.”

The IC37—a working class title that’s subject to change—will measure in at just over 37 feet, or 11.3 meters, with a 6-foot retractable sprit. The beam is just shy of 12 feet and the displacement is scheduled to be approximately 8,000 pounds with 50 percent of that in a T-bulb that will draw just more than eight feet. A two-spreader carbon rig will support 900 square feet of upwind sail area and 2,000 square feet of downwind sail area. The estimated ratings for IRC and ORC are 1.180 and 543.12, respectively.

“We were overwhelmed with the response to our initial request for proposals,” says NYYC Sailing Committee Chair Paul M. Zabetakis, who skippered the Club’s Invitational Cup entry in 2015. “We feel that’s a strong indication that there’s an opportunity in sailing for the next great one-design class. While our primary goal is to create a boat that will sustain the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup well into the future, we also hope that the momentum provided by the Club’s investment will establish a class that will reinvigorate a general interest in Corinthian yachting in larger boats.”

While the class rules are a work in progress, the Club is committed to sustaining the amateur focus of the Invitational Cup and promoting the inclusion of women and youth sailors.

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Mills 37 Deck PlanWith the design selected, the next step is to choose a builder. Experienced yacht builders from across North American and around the globe have expressed an interest. The Club expects to make that decision within the next few weeks.

“While we have more than two years until the start of the 2019 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, our timeline doesn’t have a lot of margin for error,” says NYYC member Arthur J. Santry, who chaired the IC37 Selection Subcommittee. “We hope to start the tooling by mid July and sea trial the first boat before the end of the year.”

Commodore Lotz’ connection to the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup goes back to the inaugural competition in 2009, which he won while representing the host club. He also claimed two Swan 42 National Championships.

“Each time we run the Invitational Cup, the bar gets raised,” Lotz says. “The teams come to Newport better prepared and the competition gets more intense. With the IC37 we have the perfect boat to continue that trend. We expect the 2017 event, the final one for the Swan 42, to be the most competitive yet. We anticipate the switch to the IC37 will increase both the interest in competing and the effort each invited club puts toward winning Corinthian sailing’s top prize.”

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Southern plays defence as San Diego charges toward the lead with two more wins

The story line at the sharp end of the fleet on Day 4 of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup was much the same as on Day 3. San Diego Yacht Club played from in front, starting fast and stretching away to another two wins.

For those keeping score at home, that’s four consecutive wins across two very different race arenas for Tyler Sinks and crew. Meanwhile, Southern Yacht Club’s crew showed again that no one can work out of a jam quite like they can, turning a potential clunker into a ninth, and following that up with a lunch-pail second.

When the dust cleared from a very challenging day on Narragansett Bay’s East Passage, Southern Yacht Club remained the overall leader, with a nine-point advantage over second place, which is now occupied by San Diego. Royal Thames Yacht Club sits third. And that’s the extent of the teams with a realistic shot at the championship, though Royal Cork Yacht Club and the host New York Yacht Club shouldn’t be ruled out for a podium.

2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup ©Rolex / Daniel Forster

“It really comes down to technique and working together as a team,” said San Diego tactician Jake LaDow, when asked about the team’s speed advantage over the past two days. “That [includes] weight on and off the rail, loading the boat up, and really fine tuning the sail trim. That’s been what we’ve been getting better and better at. In these really tight races, you need these two-foot crosses every once in a while. The first couple of days, our speed wasn’t as good as it is at this point in the regatta, and we had a couple of unlucky breaks. Sometimes you need those small victories throughout the race to really punch through and allow your race to free up.”

Provisional Results can be found here…

The Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is a biennial regatta hosted by the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court in Newport, R.I. Since the event was first run in 2009, it has attracted top amateur sailors from 48 of the world’s most prestigious yacht clubs from 21 countries. After five editions in the Swan 42 class, the 2021 event will be the second sailed in the IC37, designed by Mark Mills. The strict one-design nature of this purpose-built class combined with the fact that each boat is owned and maintained by the New York Yacht Club, will ensure a level playing field not seen in any other amateur big-boat sailing competition. The regatta will run through Saturday, September 18, with racing starting on Tuesday, September 14. A live broadcast on Facebook and YouTube, starting on Wednesday, September 15, will allow fellow club members, friends, family and sailing fans from around the world follow the action as it happens. Nineteen teams from nine countries will compete in 2021. The 2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is brought to you by title sponsor Rolex and regatta sponsors Helly Hansen and Hammetts Hotel.

After a punishing day on Rhode Island Sound on Thursday, the Race Committee moved the fleet inside Narragansett Bay, north of Gould Island. The flatter water and more moderate breeze was a welcome change for many competitors, but what today’s conditions lacked in physical challenge was more than compensated for on the mental side of the sport. The breeze was shifty and puffy, and the tide was a factor, and few teams were immune to a bad race. In fact, of the top seven teams to begin the day, Southern and San Diego were the only two to avoid at least one double-digit finish.

2021 Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup day 4 - photo © Rolex / Daniel Forster

San Diego stuck with a similar playbook to yesterday, starting at the pin and using superior speed to jump into the lead. Southern, once again, had to battle, particularly in the day’s first race.

“We had a pretty decent first beat and rounded the weather mark in about sixth and everyone in the lead pack bore off initially on starboard,” said Rick Merriman, Southern’s main trimmer and a two-time winner of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup. “The boats behind all jibed and got a jump on everyone. We went to jibe back, and there was a starboard tacker that pushed us to the right, and by then we’d pretty much lost everyone. We tried to keep our attitude strong and keep moving. We know we’ve got decent speed, so we just hung in there on the second beat and the run, kept passing boats and got in the top 10 again.”

A second in the second race salvaged a very solid day, which will send the Southern Yacht Club team (Bow 3) into the final two races with a solid, but far from unsurmountable advantage.

Behind Southern, it was tough sledding for many top teams. Eastern, New York, Royal Cork, and Royal Canadian all saw their dreams of a podium, if not a win, take a significant hit.

Of the 19 teams in the regatta, just five put together two single-digit finishes on Day 4. The San Francisco Yacht Club, which has shown flashes of speed in multiple races, had a fifth and a fourth. The other two teams were more surprising.

2021 Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup day 4 - photo © Rolex / Daniel Forster

Royal Swedish Yacht Club (Bow 6, above) recorded its best two results of the regatta, a sixth and a seventh, and moved from 14th to 11th.

“I think the main reason was the starts,” said tactician Johanna Sommarlund. “We got off the line today finally. We’ve been trying to find a way for the timing for the acceleration. We finally got that right today and then we played the shifts on the upwind.

“We’ve been trying some different things, working on, OK, let’s turn a little bit earlier, don’t think about the bias, just get clear air. Today we finally found the recipe to get off the start.”

Then there were the viking hats. The team broke them out for Thursday evening’s Lobster Bake, and at least one crew member decided to wear it on the water today.

“Some people say it’s bad luck to wear hats during the race,” she said. “But apparently it’s been really good for us. We’ll be quicker with the viking helmets [tomorrow].”

2021 Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup day 4 - photo © Rolex / Daniel Forster

Howth Yacht Club (Bow 4, above) also had its best two results today. Tactician Laura Dillon also chalked it up to trying something new. In the case of the Irish team, it was more input from the regatta’s youngest participant, 15-year-old Rocco Wright.

“Rocco was feeding a lot of input today, and it was really helpful to have those extra pair of eyes looking around,” said Dillon. “We definitely found today that the waves were less and we had good enough boatspeed across the course, so it was much more about the shifts and the gusts. That definitely helped level the playing field.

“We’re really enjoying the event, and it’s showing as we’re getting better every day.”

Howth currently sits 16th in the regatta, but Dillon and her teammates were smiling wide tonight in the tent after racing and eagerly looking ahead to more progress over the final two races.

“A steady gain is really good,” she said. “If we’re ending on a positive trajectory, then we’ll be hopefully looking forward to, in the future, coming back and continuing on that upward trajectory. We’d all love a podium position, but a steady gain would keep us all very happy.”

Results after Day 4:

1. Southern Yacht Club, Boat 3, USA, 1, 10, 2, 4, 1, 3, 3, 4, 9, 2; 39pts 2. San Diego Yacht Club. Boat 17, USA, 12, 4, 5, 6, 12, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1; 48pts 3. Royal Thames Yacht Club, Boat 10, GBR, 2, 2, 1, 8, 8, 9, 9, 2, 10, 3; 54pts 4. Royal Cork Yacht Club, Boat 13, IRL, 3, 3, 11, 1, 6, 6, 4, 9, 2, 16; 61pts 5. New York Yacht Club, Boat 19, USA, 4, 1, 7, 3, 5, 12, 7, 11, 15, 10; 75pts 6. Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Boat 5, CAN, 13, 9, 16, 9, 2, 4, 5, 5, 3, 14; 80pts 7. Eastern Yacht Club, Boat 16, USA, 12*, 6, 4, 5, 3, 2, 8, 16, 18, 8; 82pts 8. The San Francisco Yacht Club, Boat 2, USA, 17, 7, 9, 2, 11, 1, 14, 15, 5, 4; 85pts 9. Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Boat 14, ITA, 7*, 12, 3, 16, 7, 8, 6, 14, 4, 12; 89pts 10. American Yacht Club, Boat 8, USA, 9*, 11, 8, 13*, 13, 16, 2, 6, 11, 6; 95pts 11. Royal Swedish Yacht Club, Boat 6, SWE, 10, 8, 18, 14, 9, 13, 16, 10, 6, 7; 111pts 12. Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, Boat 15, CAN, 7, 5, 6, 7, 19, 17, 19, 12, 19, 5; 116pts 13. Yacht Club Argentino, Boat 9, ARG, 14, 13, 17, 11, 15, 7, 10, 3, 13, 17; 120pts 14. Noroton Yacht Club, Boat 7, USA, 15, 14, 10, 10, 14, 10, 17, 8, 14, 15; 127pts 15. Nyländska Jaktklubben, Boat 12, FIN, 6*, 18, 13, 15, 10, 15, 12, 7, 17, 19; 132pts 16. Howth Yacht Club, Boat 4, IRL, 16, 16, 14, 13, 17, 11, 15, 19, 7, 9; 137pts 17. Itchenor Sailing Club, Boat 11, GBR, 19, 15, 15, 18, 4, 18, 13, 17, 8, 11; 138pts 18. Yacht Club Italiano, Boat 18, ITA, 10*, 17, 12, 17, 16, 14, 11, 13, 12, 18; 140pts 19. Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, Boat 20, BER, 18, 19, 19, 19, 18, 19, 18, 18, 16, 13; 177pts

* Race score includes 1-point penalty for early extension of sprit

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The New York Yacht Club: American Muscle

The new york yacht club has an unrivaled association with yachting’s oldest and most prestigious trophy—the america’s cup..

This article was written by Justin Chisholm. Photography courtesy of American Magic.

No other yacht club in the world can match the NYYC’s track record in the 173-year-old international competition, which began back in 1851 when the NYYC schooner America won the 100 Guinea Cup by defeating a fleet of 15 British yachts from England’s Royal Yacht Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight.

America’s owners renamed the 14-kilogram, 1.1-meter-high, ornate solid silver claret jug built by royal jewelers Garard as the “America’s Cup” and bequeathed the trophy to the NYYC to be awarded to the winner of a new international challenge regatta aimed at promoting “friendly competition” between yacht clubs around the world.

The NYYC successfully defended the trophy for the first time in 1857 when the American yacht Magic won a race in New York Harbour against a 17-boat fleet that included the British challenger Cambria, which finished eighth.

Magic’s victory sparked the NYYC’s sensational 132-year winning streak that saw the club successfully defend the America’s Cup a further 24 times, before losing it to Australia’s Royal Perth Yacht Club in 1983.

Although after this shock defeat, the New York club appeared to lose all interest in yachting’s premiere event, the San Diego Yacht Club won the Cup back for the US in 1987 and successfully defended it in 1988 and 1992, before losing it once again in 1995.

15 years later, the Golden Gate Yacht Club brought the ancient trophy back to American soil once again and went on to defend it with a memorable fightback win in 2013, but lost it again in 2017.

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The New York Yacht Club’s 38-year hiatus from the America’s Cup ended in 2021 with a challenge under the name “NYYC American Magic” for the 36th edition staged in Auckland, New Zealand.

Backing for the New York team came from three prominent and highly successful American businessmen: Doug Devos (co-chairman of Amway), Hap Fauth (founder and chairman of Churchill Companies), and Roger Penske (founder and chairman of Penske Corporation).

Despite being well funded, with a top design team and a crew made up of some of the world’s best professional sailors, the challenge was ultimately unsuccessful, with the American syndicate becoming the first of the three international challengers to be eliminated from the Prada Cup Challenger Selection Series.

Now, though, the American team is back for another tilt at bringing the America’s Cup back to the United States with a challenge for the 37th America’s Cup taking place in Barcelona, Spain over the summer and autumn of 2024.

This time, the campaign is funded in the main by just DeVos and Fauth who, aside from their considerable business acumen, are both highly accomplished competitive yachtsmen in their own right.

DeVos is the major shareholder in the leading global sailmaker Quantum Sails and skipper of the highly successful Quantum Racing team seven-time winners of the TP52 World Championship.

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Fauth is the founder and skipper of the Bella Mente sailing team which, as well as winning the 2006 Newport to Bermuda Race and the 2011 Transpac Race, has won their division at the prestigious Maxi Yacht World Championship on three occasions.

According to insiders, American Magic’s early exit from the last America’s Cup sparked a long and brutally honest debrief on where the campaign went wrong. As a result, significant changes have been made throughout the team, aimed at ensuring a better outcome for its second campaign.

The illustrious American yachtsman Terry Hutchinson an 11-time world champion, Louis Vuitton Cup winner, and twice-named Rolex Yachtsman of the Year was retained as skipper and president of sailing operations.

DeVos and Fauth have beefed up the team’s C-level management team with the introduction of Mike Cazer chief executive officer of the DeVos family investment firm Continuum who took over as American Magic CEO, freeing up Hutchinson to concentrate on his main area of expertise.

The American team has also gone in a different direction on the design side too, replacing Spain’s Marcelino Botín with American two-time America’s Cup-winning naval architect Scott Ferguson as design coordinator.

In the sailing team, British Olympic gold medallist Paul Goddison moves up from mainsail trimmer in the last campaign to helmsman this time around. Goodison is paired in the helming role alongside the Australian-born newcomer Tom Slingsby.

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As well as also being an Olympic gold medal winner, Slingsby was part of the ORACLE Team USA 2013 America’s Cup-winning team, a three-time Rolex Sailor of the Year winner, and three consecutive-season winning skipper on the SailGP high-performance global sailing league.

Commenting on the club’s decision to mount a second consecutive America’s Cup campaign, commodore Paul M. Zabetakis had this to say at the time of the announcement back in January 2022.

“While the result in Auckland was not what we had hoped for, skipper Terry Hutchinson and the entire team were tremendous ambassadors for the Club and displayed exemplary sportsmanship throughout the campaign.

“The America’s Cup remains the highest peak in sailing and one of the most difficult challenges in the world of sport. The lessons learned during our previous campaign, combined with American Magic’s physical and intellectual assets and a commitment to multiple cycles, will ensure this challenge a strong chance to claim sailing’s ultimate prize.”

While the inner workings of this or any other America’s Cup team remain a closely kept secret and well hidden from outsiders, it is not hard to see that this second iteration of American Magic is much improved compared to the one that crashed out early in Auckland.

In September 2023, the team made a strong statement to the rest of the field about the quality of its sailing squad by winning the first preliminary regatta of the 37th America’s Cup cycle.

American Magic skipper Tom Slingsby hopes to be celebrating like this later this year in Barcelona.

That regatta, held in Vilanova i La Geltrú, Spain, was raced in identical AC40 yachts 40-foot scaled-down versions of the full-size 75-foot-long AC75s that the teams must each design and build to race in Barcelona later in 2024.

Although the victory did not score the team any points in the America’s Cup itself, according to co-helmsman Slingsby, it gave the team a major confidence boost.

However, as the US team knows all too well, the road to lifting the America’s Cup is a long and hard one that for most is paved with crushing disappointment. Success in this 37th edition as always hinges on designing and building a boat that is at least as fast as your competitors.

“We are on that journey,” Slingsby commented at the beginning of 2024 eight months ahead of the start of the two months of intense racing in Barcelona this autumn that will determine the winner of the 37th America’s Cup.

“I think, as a team, we have done everything that we feel we could have to this point. Now we are just going to have to see if we have a fast enough boat when it hits the water. That will be the defining moment.”

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The LPGA Tour is taking on Liberty National Golf Club this week for the second edition of the Mizuho Americas Open. Nine of the top 10 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, including world No. 1 Nelly Korda and defending champion Rose Zhang are set to tee it up, as are all six winners this season and five 2024 LPGA Tour rookies, most notably silver medalist Mone Inami and Epson Tour Player of the Year Gabriela Ruffels.

Take a look at just some of the featured groups this week at the Mizuho Americas Open using  KPMG Performance Insights :

Thursday, 7:44 a.m.* – Nelly Korda/Atthaya Thitikul/Ayaka Furue

Nelly Korda’s consecutive wins streak came to an end last week at the Cognizant Founders Cup, but the 13-time LPGA Tour winner is more than ready to start a new one at the Mizuho Americas Open. This is the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings No. 1’s first time teeing it up at Liberty National Golf Club, and while she’s lacking in prior experience with this difficult venue, Korda isn’t lacking at all in recent form. According to KPMG Performance Insights, the 25-year-old leads the LPGA Tour in strokes gained total (+2.87), strokes gained tee to green (+2.21), scoring average (69.37), rounds in the 60s (18), greens in regulation (76.54%), par-4 scoring (3.94), top-10 finishes (6) and birdie or better percentage. She is also second in strokes gained around the green (2, +0.66) and third in strokes gained driving (3, +0.80). This is her eighth tournament of the 2024 LPGA Tour season, and Korda won in five straight starts after finishing T16 at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, most notably capturing her second career major title and record-tying fifth consecutive victory at The Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas. She finished in a tie for seventh last week at the Cognizant Founders Cup in Clifton, N.J., after recording rounds of 69-66-73-73 at Upper Montclair Country Club.

The LPGA Tour hasn’t seen too much of Atthaya Thitikul this year, as the 21-year-old’s off-season was extended due to a thumb injury, and this week’s Mizuho Americas Open marks her third event of the season. She finished solo 12th in her 2024 debut at The Chevron Championship and missed the cut last week at the Cognizant Founders Cup, a result the Thailand native will be looking to bounce back from at Liberty National. This is her second time teeing it up in the Mizuho Americas Open, and in the tournament’s first year, the former Rolex Rankings No. 1 finished in a tie for 10th with a four-day total of 5-under. That result was one of 13 top-10 finishes Thitikul earned in 2023, and it’s one of 29 top-10 finishes that she has recorded since joining the LPGA Tour in 2022, the most of anyone on Tour in that span, according to KPMG Performance Insights.

Ayaka Furue had an impressive showing in the inaugural edition of the Mizuho Americas Open, finishing in a tie for fourth at this event in 2023, a solid performance she’ll be working to better this week at Liberty National Golf Club. The Japan native has played well thus far in 2024, earning five top-15 finishes, three of which are top-five results and the best of which was a solo third at the Blue Bay LPGA in the People’s Republic of China. She hasn’t finished worse than a tie for 50th this season, a result that came in the first major of the year in The Woodlands, Texas, and leads the Tour in subpar rounds with 27 total scores of par or better this year alone. Furue also ranks first in birdies with 142, second in rounds in the 60s with 17 and third in driving accuracy (88.28%). According to KPMG Performance Insights, the 23-year-old ranks in the top 25 in four statistical strokes-gained categories on the LPGA Tour so far this year, including strokes gained total (6, +1.63), strokes gained putting (18, +0.63), strokes gained approach (19, +0.74) and strokes gained tee to green (23, +0.91), a well-rounded combination that easily explains her early success in 2024.

Thursday, 7:55 a.m.* – Rose Zhang/Albane Valenzuela/Lydia Ko

Rose Zhang collected her second LPGA Tour title last week at the Cognizant Founders Cup, winning in spectacular fashion after making birdie on four of her last five holes at Upper Montclair Country Club to defeat LPGA Tour veteran Madelene Sagstrom by two shots. The win came 343 days after Zhang burst onto the professional golf scene by capturing the inaugural Mizuho Americas Open in her pro debut and accepted the immediate LPGA Tour membership offered as part of her non-member victory. Since joining the organization, the 20-year-old has earned six top-10 finishes, excluding her victories, the best of which was a tie for third at last year’s Maybank Championship in Malaysia. She’s kept that form rolling this season, earning two other top-10 results along with her victory, tying for seventh at the season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions and tying for fifth at the T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards. Statistically, Zhang leads the Tour in strokes gained approach (+1.50), ranks second in strokes gained total (+2.21) and ranks fourth in strokes gained tee to green (+1.60), according to KPMG Performance Insights. Her win in Clifton, N.J., bumped Zhang up to sixth in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, the highest she’s been ranked since she turned professional, and that’s a standing she’ll continue to work to improve as she tries to successfully defend a title for the first time in her career this week at Liberty National.

Though she flies under the Swiss flag, Albane Valenzuela was born in New York City, making this week’s Mizuho Americas Open, which is taking place just across the Hudson River from the Big Apple, feel a bit like a homecoming for the 26-year-old. It’s the Stanford University alum’s ninth event of the 2024 season, and after back-to-back missed cuts at The Chevron Championship and Cognizant Founders Cup, Valenzuela will be working to find some form in Jersey City, N.J. Despite the recent troubles, it’s been a solid season for the Switzerland native, who earned her career-best result on the LPGA Tour at the Honda LPGA Thailand after finishing runner-up to Patty Tavatanakit in Chonburi. According to KPMG Performance Insights, Valenzuela is ranked in the top 10 in two strokes gained categories so far this season – strokes gained approach (4, +1.30) and strokes gained tee to green (5, +1.48). This is her second appearance in the Mizuho Americas Open, and in the inaugural playing of the tournament, she ultimately finished T49.

Lydia Ko will once again have a shot at automatically qualifying for the LPGA Hall of Fame this week in the Garden State, as the New Zealand native vies for her 21st career LPGA Tour victory, a win that would give her the 27th point necessary to enter the Hall. She earned her 26th point in January after winning the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club, and after nearly capturing another title the next week at the LPGA Drive On Championship at Bradenton Country Club, Ko has yet to threaten victory again on the LPGA Tour this season. But she hasn’t been playing poorly. Excluding her victory and runner-up finish to Nelly Korda in Bradenton, Fla., the 27-year-old has earned four other top-20 results this season, the best of which was a tie for fourth at the Blue Bay LPGA in the People’s Republic of China. That steady form can be attributed to Ko’s ability to avoid mistakes this season, as she is tied with Maja Stark for most bogey-free rounds on the LPGA Tour in 2024 (6) and is tied for third in bogey avoidance, according to KPMG Performance Insights. She also leads the LPGA Tour with the highest green in regulation percentage from other than fairway, hitting the green 64.6% of the time after missing the fairway off the tee. Additionally, Ko is ranked second in rounds under par (25), sixth in scoring average (70.23) and seventh in rounds in the 60s (12).

The @LPGA travels to Liberty National as we look at the #KPMGInsights . 📈 Rose rises to victory 🏌️‍♀️ SG: Tee to Green makes a difference 🏅 Nelly leads the way pic.twitter.com/B8YMXKCeuJ — KPMG Golf (@KPMGGolf) May 15, 2024

Thursday, 1:11 p.m. – Minjee Lee/Haeran Ryu/Alexa Pano

After a pair of back-to-back missed cuts at The Chevron Championship and the JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro, Minjee Lee turned things around last week at the Cognizant Founders Cup. The 2022 Founders Cup winner finished in a tie for seventh at Upper Montclair Country Club, gaining 13.5 strokes from tee to green in Clifton, N.J., according to KPMG Performance Insights. It was the 17th time that Lee has gained 10 or more strokes tee to green in a tournament over the last three seasons, and that form is something the 10-time LPGA Tour winner is hoping to hang on to this week at Liberty National. This is her second time competing in the Mizuho Americas Open, and in last year’s event, Lee finished in a tie for 13th with a four-day total of 4-under. This is her eighth event of the 2024 season, and in addition to last week’s T7, she has also earned two other top-15 results, tying for fourth at the Blue Bay LPGA and tying for 15th at the T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards.

Haeran Ryu is making her second start at the Mizuho Americas Open, and after finishing solo third last year, the Republic of Korea native will be working to win this week at a venue that harbors great memories. She’s been playing solidly in her second year on the LPGA Tour, earning four top-10 finishes so far this season, tying for ninth at the Honda LPGA Thailand and the T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards, and then finishing solo fifth at The Chevron Championship and coming third at the JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro. Statistically, the sophomore is also showing her mettle, ranking third in strokes gained tee to green (+1.60), eighth in strokes gained driving (+0.66) and 10th in strokes gained approach (+1.03). Ryu became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G last September, a win that helped her secure Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year honors.

Alexa Pano got off to a strong start in her second year as an LPGA Tour member in January, finishing solo second at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, the first event of the 2024 season. Things have been a bit slow for the 19-year-old after that strong showing though, as Pano hasn’t found herself inside the top 40 on an LPGA Tour leaderboard since that week at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club, and she’ll be working to get the train back on the tracks at Liberty National this week. Despite her recent struggles, statistically, Pano is showing some promise, ranking third in strokes gained around the green (+0.60), fourth in strokes gained driving (+0.78) and ninth in strokes gained tee to green (+1.29), according to KPMG Performance Insights. The Florida native collected her first and only LPGA Tour title last year at the ISPS Handa World Invitational in Northern Ireland, so Pano just might be a player who contends in the wet conditions predicted for this week at the Mizuho Americas Open.

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Published on September 15th, 2023 | by Editor

San Diego wins NYYC Invitational Cup

Published on September 15th, 2023 by Editor -->

Needing simply to not shoot themselves in the foot to ensure victory in the 2023 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, the San Diego Yacht Club dominated the windy final race to stamp their authority on the eighth edition of the world’s premiere Corinthian regatta, held September 12-16 in Newport, RI.

The 12-race series ended a day early to avoid trouble as Hurricane Lee approached the New England region.

Led by 34-year-old helmsman Tyler Sinks, San Diego’s victory in the final race was their only top-four finish of the regatta and gave them the low score of 43 points, good for an 11-point win over first-time entrant Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, Mass. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron placed third with 55 points for its best result in three attempts.

Rounding out the top five were New York Yacht Club, the winner of the inaugural Invitational Cup in 2009 with 62 points, and Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, with 66 points, for its best finish in seven attempts.

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Joining Sinks, the 2015 team racing world champion, in the crew were Carissa Crawford, Cameron Hutcheson, Nick Martin (headsail trimmer), Rick Merriman (main trimmer), Al Pleskus, Adam Roberts (tactician), Robert Savoie, and Lucy Wallace.

The San Diego crew has many championships to its résumé and is a tight-knit group that goes back to youth sailing days. Sinks, Hutcheson, and Martin have sailed the past two Invitational Cups and were part of the crew that won the 2018 Resolute Cup, which qualified San Diego for the 2019 Invitational Cup.

Sinks and Wallace raced together at Boston College. Roberts and Martin put forth a 470 campaign for the 2012 Olympics. Merriman is something of an outlier, but he’s almost an essential ingredient if you’re aiming to win the Invitational Cup. This is the fourth time he’s won the Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup (previously 2009, ’17, ’21) and he’s the only sailor to win the Corinthian championship more than twice.

“Winning feels awesome,” said Sinks, a three-time collegiate All-American. “This is my third time doing this. We were second the first time, barely missed top spot, and came back two years ago and got third, so we felt there was one podium spot left to grab, and we got it.”

“It’s totally surreal. To win on a big breeze day, you can’t write that fairy tale script any better. We’re on cloud nine right now,” said Roberts, who was a four-time collegiate All-American. “We couldn’t be more thankful to get to sail together in such a premiere event with such amazing sailors all around us. To bring it all together is so much more meaningful for us.”

Nineteen teams from 14 countries competed in the eighth Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, a biennial regatta hosted by the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court in Newport, R.I. Since the event was first run in 2009, it has attracted top amateur sailors from 51 of the world’s most prestigious yacht clubs from 22 countries.

After five editions in the Swan 42 class, the 2023 event will be the third sailed in the IC37, designed by Mark Mills. The strict one-design nature of this purpose-built class, combined with the fact that each boat is owned and maintained by the New York Yacht Club, ensures a level playing field not seen in any other amateur big-boat sailing competition.

The lone final race on September 15 was sailed in a 20-knot northerly, gusting to 25, in upper Narragansett Bay. The crews were required to reef the jibs and mains on the IC37s, and downwind the crews reported top speeds of 20 knots.

The remaining racing was cancelled after the first race so that the fleet could be hauled for safety ahead of the passage of Hurricane Lee, which is expected to pass the southern New England region later in the day and tomorrow.

The San Diego Yacht Club won the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup on its third attempt. Previously, it finished third (2021) and second (2019), both times with Sinks at the helm. In ’21, San Diego ran off four straight victories to put themselves in contention for the championship, but an 18-11 in the final two races put paid to their effort. Similarly in 2019, an 18th in the third-to-last race thwarted that run at the championship.

According to coach Ed Adams, a two-time Rolex US Sailing Yachtsman of the Year, the team had two goals this year: achieve the lowest worst score of all the teams in the regatta and pass the most boats after Mark 1.

San Diego’s worst score was a 10th in Race 3, no other team had lower than a 14th. San Diego’s string of 6-5-5-5-5-6 in the other races showed consistency and an ability to fight back from adversity. Their victory in the final race lowered their average score per race to 5.375 points.

“Our plan was to try our hardest to be consistent and conservative, but pushing to the top as much as possible,” said Roberts. “The competition here is so stiff. Anything can happen in any race at any moment. You can easily drop into a 12th or 13th after a first. We wanted to make sure we weren’t putting ourselves in positions that were super risky.”

Besides the regatta’s characteristics of tight racing and a leaderboard that saw a lot of movement, the eighth Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup showcased a youth movement. Wade Waddell, the Corinthian helmsman, is 26. Jordan Stevenson, helmsman for Royal New Zealand, is 23. Duncan Gregor, the tactician for Royal Hong Kong, is 19 years old.

“Yeah, 100 percent it could be a launching pad for my career,” said Stevenson. “You can’t get much of a bigger stage than this. You’ve got the America’s Cup, which is huge, but in terms of one-design keelboat racing, there’s not really anything bigger than the Invitational Cup. I’m super happy with how the week’s gone and really proud of the crew.”

“I really enjoyed it. It’s one of the more fun regattas I’ve been to, on both the racing and social side,” said Gregor. “Having no discards makes it a unique regatta, every point counts. It’s high scoring, and chipping away, trying to gain every point possible, is fun.”

The ninth Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup will be held in September 2025 and the Request for Invitation form for the 2024 Resolute Cup, the only surefire pathway for U.S. yacht clubs looking for a berth in the ninth edition, will go live later this year.

International yacht clubs are encouraged to email the Sailing Office ( [email protected] ) to express their interest in receiving an invitation. The invitations for 2025 will go out midway through next year.

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Final Results (8 races) 1. San Diego (Calif.) Yacht Club, 6-5-10-5-5-5-6-1, 43 2. Corinthian Yacht Club (Marblehead, Mass.), 11-17-1-10-1-8-3-3, 54 3. Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, 4-4-3-16-3-10-13-2, 55 4. New York (N.Y.) Yacht Club, 14-3-6-6-6-11-12-4, 62 5. Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, 8-11-12-1-14-9-4-6, 65 6. Royal Swedish Yacht Club, 1-7-5-12-9-18-5-9, 66 7. Yacht Club Argentino, 2-1-2-17-4-16-15-15, 72 8. Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (ITA), 12-13-15-2-2-16*-8-8, 76 9. Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (CAN), 10*-10-8-14-8-3-11-13, 77 10. Royal Canadian Yacht Club, 13-12-4-11-15-4-17-7, 83 11. Howth Yacht Club (IRL), 7-15-17-7-18-17-2-5, 88 12. Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (AUS), 17-6-9*-8-7-13-18-10, 88 13. Royal Cork Yacht Club (IRL), 18-14-9-9-12-12-1-14, 89 14. Japan Sailing Federation, 3-16-DNF/20-3-19-7-9-12, 89 15. Yacht Club Punta Del Este (URY), 10-8-18-19-13-1-10-16, 95 16. Southern Yacht Club (New Orleans, La.) 15-9-13-18-16-6-7-11, 95 17. Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (GER), 19-18-16-4-11-2-14-18, 102 18. Itchenor Sailing Club (GBR), 5-2-14-15-17-20*-NSC/20-17, 110 19. Nyländska Jaktklubben (FIN), 16-19-11-13-10-14-16-RET/20, 119 *1-point penalty

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