WOMEN’S AND YOUTH AMERICA’S CUP EVENTS FORMATS ANNOUNCED

One of the new aspects of the 37th America’s Cup is the introduction of the America’s Cup Women’s Regatta and America’s Cup Youth events. These events have been developed to create new accelerated inclusive pathways into the America’s Cup for the growing global talent pool of female and youth sailors.

Racing will be in a fleet of one-design AC40 yachts supplied by the America’s Cup teams. Off the water, a shared shore and technical support team will be provided by the organisers to facilitate cost savings and to ensure consistency across the fleet.

The participating teams will be split into two pools for an initial series of fleet racing. The first pool will be comprised of the teams entered and competing in the America’s Cup, the second pool will then be formed by the independent yacht club entries that qualify to enter under the nationality clause of the 37th America’s Cup Protocol. Both pools will race a series of 6-9 fleet races with the top three teams from each pool progressing to the final series of 3-4 fleet races to decide the top two teams to compete in a single match-race final to determine the overall winners of each event.

Both the Women’s and Youth America’s Cups will be sailed on the America’s Cup racecourse off the Barcelona waterfront during the final stages of the Challenger Selection Series and the opening of America’s Cup Match itself.

For the Youth America’s Cup, the crews can be made up of male, female or mixed crews, all of whom are required to be aged 25 and under on the first race of the Match. There shall be no age restriction for the Women’s America’s Cup regatta. The crew nationality requirements of the 37th America’s Cup Protocol shall apply for both regattas, so 100% of the crew sailing each yacht in each race shall be nationals of the country of the yacht club that the team represents.

READ FULL NEWS : https://features.americascup.com/time-to-shine/index.html