Peachy Ahoy: A truly once in a lifetime opportunity
The 35th America’s Cup will take place on the beautiful waters of Bermuda from 26th May to 27th June 2017 and is predicted to be the greatest America’s Cup in the 166 year history of the competition for the oldest trophy in international sport.
Over its lifetime, the America’s Cup has gone through numerous transformations, arguably none greater than the revolution first seen in the 34th America’s Cup in San Francisco, and now taken to new, exciting levels by the 35th America’s Cup in 2017.
Among the dramatic changes are the adoption and championing of foiling technology in the America’s Cup race boats, now enabling the America’s Cup Class (ACC) boats that will race in 2017 to battle it out at speeds approaching 50 knots, more than 90kph, and the move from offshore racing to inshore events, taking place on stadium style racecourses as personified by Bermuda’s Great Sound.
This switch of racecourse locations, first seen in San Francisco Bay in 2013 and now taken to incredible new heights by the choice of Bermuda and its iconic Great Sound, has also revolutionized the viewing options for America’s Cup fans. Now, in 2017, the America’s Cup has the unique distinction of any world class sports event that fans can watch the racing live, both from the shoreline in the America’s Cup Village, the purpose built home of the 35th America’s Cup, and from “front row” positions on the water where there is a wide range of options available to spectators who want to be in the thick of the action, as close as it is possible to be to watch the world’s greatest sailors fight it out for the ‘Auld Mug’.
However, it is not the fact that people can watch America’s Cup racing in its modern guise from on the water that sets the America’s Cup in Bermuda apart, it is the fact that Bermuda perfectly lends itself to enable America’s Cup fans to watch the racing and stay on board boats for the duration of their stay, making a water-borne vacation in the home of the 35th America’s Cup an incredibly attractive proposition.
One family who have taken full advantage of this unique opportunity are the Samis family from Chicago, Illinois who have booked their stay in Bermuda with The Moorings, established in 1969 and an Official Charter Supplier to the 35th America’s Cup.