Tudor Team Alinghi showed us what teams never show: their AC75 stripped to a bare carbon shell in the shed in Italy, mid-rebuild for the 38th America’s Cup.
Niall Myant-Best gets a full tour of the boat from Alinghi’s Technical Director Benjamin Muyl and Head of Mechanical Systems Dan Smith. Why the boat came home from Barcelona in pieces. Why they’re using a foil bought second-hand from a rival team. The fibre optics buried in every part of the hull, and the how sailors deal with fifty controls onboard. And the multi-million Euro question : why a team that has won the America’s Cup twice says it won’t win this one – and is rebuilding anyway.
The AC75 returns for the America’s Cup in summer 2027, with Alinghi’s AC40 racing at the preliminary regatta in Naples this September 2026.
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0:00 Intro
0:33 Benjamin Muyl: Why the AC75 Is in Pieces
1:40 Alinghi’s America’s Cup Story
2:23 First Look: The AC75 Revealed
4:15 Up the Ladder: Inside the Cockpit
6:21 Why Every Team Builds a Different Boat
7:45 The Budget Cap and Who Polices the Rules
9:25 Inside the Hull
10:15 50 Controls, Five Actions a Second
12:32 The Rudder: Thin Enough to Cut You
14:00 Dan Smith: What the Sensors Are Really For
15:27 Rebuilding the Rudder by Hand
17:08 Training Wheels Off: How the Sailors Fly It
19:19 Foil Arms, Seven Tonnes and a Second-Hand Wing
22:34 The Paranoia of Getting It Right
23:58 The Pressure to Launch
24:56 Why They Do It
26:47 "We Don’t Pretend That We’ll Be Winning"
28:21 Why They Come Back
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The Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup will be defended in Naples in 2027 by five-time America’s Cup winner, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron represented by their team, @EmiratesTeamNZ .
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