NYYC drives conversation about future of America's Cup

[ASFN Admin]

The four teams entered in the 36th America’s Cup have yet to pit their fantastical-looking boats against each other and the New York Yacht Club is already pondering the future of sailing’s marquee regatta. With a preliminary regatta just days away in Auckland, New Zealand, the NYYC hosted a Zoom call among some 30 yacht clubs and stakeholders on Monday to discuss ways to try to achieve more continuity in a competition that has changed dramatically since 1983. Christopher Culver, who became the NYYC’s commodore on Thursday, said the club — back in the America’s Cup for the first time in nearly 20 years — had been asked by a number of parties to use its position as the original holder of the America’s Cup to drive the conversation on improving the event.

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