America’s Cup changed its master: the Oracle era turned to its end and the Team New Zealand age starts again. With a 7-1 win in Bermuda, the New Zealand team is now the new Defender, and the sailing world awaits news about the future set-up of the Cup with curiosity.
As Official Supplier to Emirates Team New Zealand, the whole Armare Ropes team is proud of having shared this extraordinary victory with its products and congratulates the entire Team New Zealand, starting with Max Sirena, Technical advisor of the team and very first who believed in the quality of our products. However, thanks should also be expressed to all those “at home”, the employees and cooperators of Armare, who made it possible, with their work, to achieve this extraordinary success.
Emirates Team TL Team New Zealand celebrates the victory _ Photo © Gilles Martin-Raget
Ropes made by Armare Ropes win with Emirates Team New Zealand
The ropes Armare has designed, manufactured and supplied to Emirates Team New Zealand connect America’s Cup to Armare Ropes. They have been used for more than one year during the America’s Cup Campaign concluded with the win of the Cup against Team Oracle.
The ropes from Armare have been chosen for the boats used during the qualifications, the AC Acts as well as during the whole Louis Vuitton Cup and afterwards during the actual America’s Cup itself.
The development of the project required a remarkable effort to Armare called to design, to test and to manufacture ropes that perfectly meet the needs of the super performing catamarans used during this campaign. Intensive training sections and data cross made possible thanks to the feedback received from the racing staff of Team New Zealand, allowed to hit the target during this prestigious challenge; all the project and constructive technologies developed for ETNZ allow an as rapid growth of the standard products that directly benefit from the important improvement imported from the America’s Cup.
Also thanks to the extraordinary success of Emirates Team New Zealand, Armare Ropes increases its attendance on the international market with further important projects that are followed up directly as well as by professionals and external riggers; For the time being products from Armare are recognized and appreciated worldwide, they are used on all types of boats, from the smallest dinghy up to the biggest Super Yachts.
A confidentially agreement currently protects all the products manufactured and supplied for the AC 50 until now and for this reason we aren’t allowed to give any information about technical details.
Team New Zealand has won the America’s Cup demonstrating that even in a hyper technological Cup, the role of men is determining, decisive, essential and of dramatic importance. Thanks to a team of designers able to achieve a faster boat and to find even brilliant and unique solutions for some components, ETNZ won the Cup notwithstanding an equivalent budget of less than half of the amount Oracle disposed of.
Having lost the penultimate edition of the Cup with a 9-8 Cup in San Francisco, story this time has taken another direction and leads straight to Auckland, “the city of sail”, where it deserves to be the Old Jug.
The most resounding of the re-matches became real, the dramatic recovery of San Francisco 2013 has been canceled, New Zealand is celebrating and people of the international sailing community smiles.
Proud to be onboard Emirates Team New Zealand!