{"id":4905,"date":"2019-10-15T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computationalfluiddynamics.com.au\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T04:00:33","slug":"congratulations-to-emirates-team-new-zealand-for-hitting-major-milestones-in-the-leadup-to-the-36th-americas-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/cfd\/congratulations-to-emirates-team-new-zealand-for-hitting-major-milestones-in-the-leadup-to-the-36th-americas-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Emirates Team New Zealand for hitting major milestones in the leadup to the 36th America&#8217;s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ETNZ-launch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2554\" height=\"742\" \/>Does all the drama and excitement of the Emirates Team New Zealand victory in the America&#8217;s Cup in Bermuda seem like just yesterday (maybe it&#8217;s just us)?\u00a0 Well here&#8217;s a reality check for anyone who doesn&#8217;t closely following competitive sailing &#8211; those races were back in 2017 so it&#8217;s now over 2 years on and Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) and various international challengers are now almost at the half-way mark of preparing for the next cup &#8211; the 36th America&#8217;s Cup to be held in Auckland in March 2021!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But in competitive sailing, we all know that things are anything but static.\u00a0 The new <a href=\"https:\/\/emirates-team-new-zealand.americascup.com\/en\/ac75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AC75 class rules<\/a> were revealed in 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PgRRyYsyGDc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here for a great explanation of the regulations that will be followed by all competing teams<\/a>). We&#8217;ve seen that the entire ETNZ team has been working furiously to develop and optimise this new foiling monohull design, and now we are starting to see the fruits of their labour and ingenuity &#8211; in fact they have begun hitting major milestones recently, with their official boat launch of &#8220;Te Aihe&#8221; (Dolphin) and a significant &#8220;First Foil&#8221; achieved during their first day of sailing on the Hauraki Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LEAP staff recently had the pleasure of attending their official launch of &#8220;Boat 1&#8221; at their new headquarters on the Auckland harbourfront. We encourage you to watch this video highlights package from the Launch of &#8220;Te Aihe&#8221; which includes some insightful comments from the sailors and their CEO about the development of this new boat, along with early footage of their first foil:<\/p>\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Emirates Team NZ Launch of &quot;Te Aihe&quot; highlights and first foil\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5on4ddCKrkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Speaking on launch night, ETNZ COO Kevin Shoebridge noted that \u201cThis is a significant occasion for the team, not just because it is another new boat, but really because when we won the America\u2019s Cup in 2017 we very quickly had to come up with a new concept of boat that would really continue to push the boundaries of innovation and technology in the America\u2019s Cup. So in the relatively short timeframe since November in 2017 when we published the concept, to seeing it in the flesh today is an amazing testament to the entire team willing to push things all the way from concept to design to build and fit out\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emirates-team-new-zealand.americascup.com\/en\/news\/404_EMIRATES-TEAM-NEW-ZEALAND-LAUNCH-THEIR-FIRST-BOAT.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In recent media releases, ETNZ has confirmed<\/a> that it has taken over 100,000 man-hours to design and build the boat with a group of about 65 people between designers and boat builders throughout the past year.\u00a0Emirates Team New Zealand Head of Design Dan Bernasconi was a central figure in the development of the AC75 Class Rule before turning his team of designers\u2019 attention to the specific design of the Emirates Team New Zealand boat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a huge amount of innovation in the design and build of the AC75 \u2013 more than we saw in the AC50\u2019s in Bermuda\u201d said Bernasconi. \u201cThe AC75 is a completely new concept and has presented plenty of challenges across many areas \u2013 but this is precisely what the Rule was designed to do \u2013 to push development to the extreme. We haven\u2019t been conservative in any aspect of our design; it\u2019s not long until we need to commit to the design of our second boat, which we will ultimately race in the 2021 America\u2019s Cup, so we need to test as many of our ideas as possible in the yacht we\u2019re launching today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Emirates Team New Zealand, unlike other challengers they have focused the development of their first boat entirely with their in-house simulator (as opposed to building a smaller scale test boat to validate concepts on the water). So when the AC75 went for its maiden sail, it was the first time the team has collectively sailed since winning the America\u2019s Cup on June 26th 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t be without nerves the first time we go sailing, but I am sure that is no different for all of the teams.\u201d said Glenn Ashby. \u201cThe AC75\u2019s are big powerful and fast boats so they will be a handful, but from our understanding through our simulations they are inherently a safer boat to sail than what we have sailed in the past two America\u2019s Cups. As with any new boat it is all about slowly getting it up to speed, learning how to sail it most efficiently, pushing the development of the designs and then putting in the hours in getting ready to race for the ACWS Sardinia in April 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emirates Team New Zealand will now focus on a busy period of testing on Auckland\u2019s Hauraki Gulf over the spring and summer months having the advantage of developing and training on the race area of the America\u2019s Cup Match which will be raced in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton concludes: \u201cI wish to thank every single team member for the hard work they\u2019ve done to get us to this day. A special thanks also to all our sponsors and partners for all of their valued support so far and everything they will continue to do during our journey towards the America\u2019s Cup Match in 2021. It is an exciting time, but things are about to get a whole lot more so from now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to know more about the role that CFD has played in the success of Emirates Team New Zealand over the past 25 years, then here are some other recent interviews that have been published on Emirates Team New Zealand&#8217;s journey towards winning the &#8220;Auld Mug&#8221; in 2017:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nCY06MFqhaU<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To follow the journey of ETNZ in the lead-up to March 2021, we encourage you to:<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to the official ETNZ channel: www.youtube.com\/EmiratesTeamNZ<\/p>\n<p>Like ETNZ On Facebook: www.facebook.com\/EmiratesTeamNewZealand<\/p>\n<p>Follow ETNZ On Twitter: www.twitter.com\/EmiratesTeamNZ<\/p>\n<p>Follow ETNZ On Instagram: www.instagram.com\/emiratesteamnz<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date with the ETNZ newsletter: <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Femirates-team-new-zealand.americascup.com&amp;v=elSDgQKvc7I&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=5gSKoGkmx_z8WQ_c9rzn73GxWul8MTU3MTE4NDQzOUAxNTcxMDk4MDM5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/emirates-team-new-zealand.ame&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buy ETNZ official team gear: www.emiratesteamnzshop.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the team:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emirates Team New Zealand is a sailing team based in Auckland, New Zealand representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. They are four-time winners of the Louis Vuitton Cup and three-time winners of the America\u2019s Cup. Emirates Team New Zealand will be defending the Cup in 2021 against the winner the Prada Cup, the challenger selection series which takes place in January\u2013February in 2021 ahead of the 36th America&#8217;s Cup presented by Prada.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights from the official launch of ETNZ&#8217;s Boat 1 &#8220;Te Aihe&#8221; including insights from the sailors and CEO about the development of their AC75 class foiling monohull, along with early footage of their first foil during first day&#8217;s sailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[169,170,171,174,407,293],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cfd","tag-aerodynamics","tag-americas-cup","tag-ansys","tag-ansys-cfd","tag-design-and-testing","tag-sports-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}