The Preliminary Regatta for the 2024 America's Cup race will be held in Barcelona beinging on August 22nd. As that date draws near, more video of the boats is being uploaded to YouTube, but most of it still has narration (annoying to people who don't follow racing), or a lot of annoying wind noise. This video is just a short view of one of the boats, showing what an engineering marvel the AC75 is.
The AC75 boats all have to conform to certain standards. Height of mast, etc. But all of the boats are slightly different even so. And they are engineering masterpieces.
Emirates Team New Zealand is the defending champion, having won the previous race. I'm not sure how they settled on Barcelona for the site of this year's competition. They will face the winner of the Preliminary Regatta in October.
This is a link to the official site that will tell you a bit about the history of America's Cup.
There is one more video linked below the embedded video. It is more in the way of an advertisement for the race series, though it also has some great views of the boats. It is about a half a minute long.
This is the Emirates Team New Zealand video Cruising Through the Weekend. It is less than a minute long.
This is the America's Cup video One Month Until Racing Starts.
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