Designing and building an America's Cup yacht is a complex undertaking which involves a team with skills, experience and training in many areas...
Emirates Team New Zealand has a significantly strengthened its design team compared with the 2003 defence...
America's Cup Class yachts are made from a "sandwich" of carbon fibres pre- impregnated in epoxy resins laid over a honeycomb core...
America's Cup Class yacht masts are 34 m long; height above deck is 32 m - equivalent to a building about 12 stories high...
The team will build more than 200 sails for the America's Cup 2007. In some busy months the team will produce 17 new sails...
Design team members Nick Holroyd and Nick Hutchins work in the rather esoteric area of computational fluid dynamics ...
A testing programme would not be worthwhile without the ability to collect and analyse a vast amount of data...
