Challenger38th America’s Cup
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An Official Challenger
for the Auld Mug
The Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club sails for Australia at the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup in Naples. It is the nation’s first challenge in twenty five years, and the first time since 2000 the Australian blue ensign flies at the pinnacle of the sport.
A Nation, a Club,
and the Will to Win
Team Australia carries the colours of the Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club and the hopes of a sailing nation. It is a campaign built on ambition, engineering and the memory of 1983, and on the belief that the Cup belongs, once more, within Australia’s reach.
The challenge is backed by the Winning family, John “Woody” Winning Sr. and John “Herman” Winning Jr. of the Winning Group, whose support carried Australia’s crews at the Youth & Women’s America’s Cup. John Jr. skippered Andoo Comanche to line honours in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart.
The Romance of
’83, Carried Forward
On 26 September 1983, off Newport, Australia II ended 132 years of New York Yacht Club dominance, the longest winning streak in sport.
Alan Bond’s challenger was the boat everyone feared. Ben Lexcen’s revolutionary winged keel, kept shrouded at the dock all summer, made her the class of the fleet, and she swept the Louis Vuitton challenger trials winning 48 of 54 races. In the Match, skipper John Bertrand and his crew fell 3–1 down to Dennis Conner’s Liberty, then won three straight, forcing the first deciding seventh race in Cup history and seizing the lead on its penultimate run to win by 41 seconds.
That spirit, daring engineering, quiet confidence and national pride, is the inheritance RPEYC now carries to Naples.
The Hands on
the Wheel
To Be Announced
The Club Behind
the Challenge
Commodore Sven Runow and Vice Commodore & Team Principal Samuel Fay bind the campaign to the Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club, the club entrusted with the nation’s challenge.
July 2027 · Naples
A collection of concierge led travel and hospitality experiences, curated around the Match and the Bay of Naples, every detail held by the RPEYC AC38 concierge.
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For travel, hospitality and every enquiry, the AC38 concierge holds the detail. Write to us at the AC38 concierge.
