ROAD TO THE CUP
If there is one single technology that will define the outcome of the 36th America’s Cup it will be simulation: the ability to accurately model and so predict the performance of a boat before its construction.
The reason is simple: every other means of performance evaluation has been neutered – or, at the very least, significantly hampered – by the Protocol, which bans tow-tank and wind tunnel testing and sailing two AC75s at the same time.
These rules move the battleground to a virtual arena, where a team’s ability to
