D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the new rules for the America's Cup ahead of Naples event

America’s Cup teams will be required to compete with a female sailor on board, batteries will replace manual power, and a cost cap has been introduced, in a major shake-up for the next edition.

They are just some of the changes made for the 38th instalment in Naples in 2027 with the long-awaited protocol confirmed and released today.

The number of sailors on board an AC75 will drop from eight to five, with neither grinders nor cyclors expected to feature. 

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sport with tab powerplays and a lock of bigger odds
are eighteen bit responsibly. I'm still going to tell you
about the Taylor Swift thing later on. Anyway, Darcy water
Grove sports talk host is with us right now. Heylo Darcy.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good afternoon, Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Run us through all the rules, please all of them.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
How long have you got the important okay, the important ones.
This is the new protocol for the America's Cup got
released two o'clock this afternoon. Of all the sailors on board,
one must be a woman. There's a big one. They
also have a six person on board the boat, and
that will be a guest or a VIP or a
sponsor or a media guy or an influencer or whatever.

(00:37):
The other one is batteries are going to replace manual power,
so they're no longer plugging it into a They're plugging
it into a grid, not using cyclaus or grinders, which
is so punishing. You've been a grinder, I mean, you
be a grinder on it. Don't okay, it's not worth it.
It's miserable. I tried it once and I'm tiny. It's
just no good for anyone. There's also got a a

(01:00):
protocol where they're going to set up an implementation of
a group called the America's Cup Partnership. So it's a
body and it's establishing equal authority for everybody involved. So
it looks an on and off the water discussions, development, protection, community, commercialization,

(01:21):
excuse me, all sorts. So they're they're they're opening the
gates to make it a very different event. There's there's
so much more. Jump into the Herald and take a
look at that. But it got released today and it
was along with everyone else's involved, because it used to
just be the defender and the challenge of the record
that have put this together, but now they've opened it

(01:42):
up for all of the other challenges.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Can I just ask you question, why do they have
to have that that position for a media guy or
whatever on board?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I don't know, an influencer possibly, Look imagine you know
a guy called mister Beast. Have you heard it right? Okay,
So imagine getting someone like mister Beast on board.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
So this is just in order to do pr I
would expect.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
So to look after a king or a queen or
a Why do they have to have a woman, well,
because isn't that the way of the world that everybody
is engaged and involved. Don't they need to slowly feed
this in. They've got the America's Woman Women's World Cup,
so they've got that there.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
But I think, like, let's be honest about it, the
America's Cup team that it's because Dalton's team's got a
really awesome woman and they know not everybody's going to
be able to find an awesome woman, so they've got
an advantage.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
You're talking about mackay, right there you go? Are there
plenty around? Joela is very good. There's a number and
you look across the globe though, these.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Screwing the scrum, isn't it. It's not about being wokesters,
it's about screwing the scrum. Love it? Hey? Speaking of women? Yeah, okay, so.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I want to discuss that tonight on the show. We're
just walking around to climb on board with.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
So we've got Kelly Jackson heading over to play netball
in Australia. We've got to Pious Selby Rickett, We've got
Mad Gordon, have got Karen Berger. Now four of them.
Well the top of Grace.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, no, Grace is gone. Grace wicked plan lead. She's
good yeah, and it's confirmed. But this new news around
Maddy Gordon and to pay Selby Record and Karen Berger,
that's not official yet, but it has understood that's the case.
I spoke with Kelly Jackson earlier today. You can get

(03:24):
some of that on the podcast Sports Fix, and I
asked her about who else is coming on board. Well,
there's been discussions. You know, if you talk to other
Silver Ferns about this and teammates, well, you know, of
course since the eligibility change, we've been talking. You don
tell me who they are.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
No, this is good for the silver Ferns. This is
good because they're going over to play in this in
the competition right that you need to play it so
they will come back so strong.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's good for them. But is it any good for
the domestic company.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
No, it's not good for our domestic competition. But what's
more important to you, Darcy, our domestic competition or our
international squad.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
What they've got to do with the domestic competition now
is look at pathways through and that's what they're doing,
saying when the Silver Ferns, we're going to find the
best of the best. But if they're not playing in
our comp the three, four, five, six. That gives room
for others to write, so try and find the positives.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Looking for chattering I am, I'm into it. Hey, thank
you very much.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Like the sports stories before about the footballer with the
pop star wife. Good sports story.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, it is a sports story. I've forgotten about that.
I've forgotten about that dancy autograph sports sports force tell
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