Elite Traveler September-October 2017

DISCOVER

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The 35th America’s Cup Match presented by Louis Vuitton is over, and so is the Cup as we know it in the Larry Ellison era. Emirates Team New Zealand dominated Oracle Team USA the Kiwis to avenge their astonishing loss in 2013 and to fulfill their promise to bring the C After two years of criss-crossing the globe in thrilling races, the Cup ended with a bit of a wh Emirates Team New Zealand simply outclassed Oracle Team USA, and the nail-biting comeb everyone in Bermuda was expecting never materialized. Now, we turn to the future. Shortly a lopsided victory, Agostino Randazzo, president of Circolo della Vela Sicilia (the Italian yacht represents Luna Rossa), stepped off a New Zealand support boat to deliver his challenge for America’s Cup, becoming the Challenger of Record. The Italians thus gain the right to determ rules and format of the next Cup alongside New Zealand. At time of press, the rumors were Where and when would the Cup take place? Would the so-called passport rule change to re sailors with the nationality of the boat? Will they race foiling catamarans or return to monoh keep the foiling catamarans, will more teams change to cycling instead of manual grinding? If they already know, they are keeping it quiet for now, and fans wait on tenterhooks to hear if they will have to wait another four years for the Cup to return, and what it will look like when it does. THERE IS NO SECOND PLACE ack that fter the club that the 36th ine the

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Words Kristen Shirley. Photos Sander van der Borch, Ricardo Pinto