Changes to Cup vessels

THE yachts competing for the next America’s Cup will be bigger, faster, single-hulled giants that fly over the water on foils, like the catamarans seen in recent regattas, Team New Zealand (TNZ) said yesterday.

The New Zealanders, who won the Auld Mug from Team USA in Bermuda in June, get to dictate rules for the next America’s Cup in Auckland in March 2021.

TNZ’s design vision opted for a return to usual monohulls, rather than the catamarans used twice before.