This is the schedule for the America’s Cup sailing competition
Event officials have announced that they expect to have at least 2,500 volunteers at the event.
The organization of the 37th America’s Cup to be held in Barcelona presented on Tuesday a calendar, which is not yet final, with the formats of the competition to be held in the Catalan capital between August 22 and October 27, 2024.
At a meeting at the organization’s headquarters, America’s Cup Events also announced that the event expects to have at least 2,500 volunteers.
The inauguration ceremony will be held on August 22, as on that day in 1851 the schooner America, representing the New York Yacht Club, won a regatta on the Isle of Wight and received the legendary ‘Hundred Guineas Jug’, the current trophy of the competition, as a trophy.
From August 23 to 26, the third preliminary regatta of the competition will be held in the waters of Barcelona, after those of Vilanova i la Geltrú, from September 14 to 17, 2023 and Cagliari (Italy), in October of this year. These two races will be held with the 11.80-meter AC40 foiling monohulls.
The third preliminary regatta in Barcelona will already feature the AC75s (22.90-meter foiling monohulls) that the teams will also use in the Challenger Selection Series, which will determine the opponent for defending champion Emirates Team New Zealand and will take place October 12-27, 2024.
The teams will compete in 13 ‘match races’ (boat against boat) and the first team to win 7 races will be the winner. The Challenger Selection Series, in which the five challengers will face the AC75 (the Defender could also do so, but would not score) will start on August 31, 2024 with a double ’round robin’ series, in which each team will face the remaining teams twice. The four highest scorers will compete in the semifinals: the highest scorer will choose his opponent and the first one to reach seven points will advance, together with the other finalist, to the final, also at 7 points.
The Junior America’s Cup – sailors under 25 years of age – will start on September 19, 2024 and the Women’s America’s Cup will start on October 3, 2024. Both the Youth Cup and the Women’s Cup will be contested with the AC40s and between 12 teams divided into two groups of six for an initial series of fleet races.
The first group will be composed of the six teams that are registered and competing in the America’s Cup.
The second group will be made up of independent participants belonging to yacht clubs that qualify under the nationality clause of the America’s Cup protocol. Both groups will compete in a series of 6 to 9 fleet races (all against all) and the top three teams from each group will advance to the final series of 3 to 4 fleet races to decide the top two teams.
These will compete in a single ‘match race’ final to determine the overall winners of each event. The finals of the Youth Cup (either men’s or mixed teams) will be held on October 2, coinciding with the end of the Challenger Selection Series. The final of the Women’s Cup will be on October 16, in the middle of a day of the final of the 37th America’s Cup.
It has also been announced that Barcelona will host regattas of legendary J-Class and 12-Meter class boats, which competed in the America’s Cup from 1930 to 1937 and from 1958 to 1987.
It is expected that in early June the competing teams will be in their locations, although their base buildings are not finished, in Barcelona’s Port Vell to train. Those teams with first generation AC75 (2021) will also be able to train on the competition stage.
Source – https://metropoliabierta.elespanol.com/vivir-en-barcelona/organizacion-copa-america-perfila-calendario-competicion_70912_102.html
