| Finally the months of conjecture are mostly over. Yesterday we made it up to Villeneuve, Switzerland to get the long awaited first glimpse of Alinghi’s radical new AC33 defender.
In very general terms the boat we saw is what we expected - a scaled-up D35. But while the D35 tries to be effectively a trimaran without a centre hull, the new Alinghi goes substantially further down this concept route with a catamaran that is 90ft long, but we suspect is 70-80ft wide (our colleagues think she is more or less square - we are uncertain having only had to opportunity to get a perspective from the bow). ...more |
