Month: October 2022

37th America's Cup

INEOS Britannia reveal test boat, T6

October 27, 2022

United Kingdom – 10/27/2022 – The British America’s Cup team, INEOS Britannia, today launched their first test boat for the 37th America’s Cup code-named T6, designed and built-in collaboration with Mercedes-AMG F1 Applied Science, a division of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team. The 40-foot test boat will play a vital role in the team’s program through to the next America’s Cup, to be raced in Barcelona in summer 2024. T6’s work will commence with an extensive testing period, primarily aimed at validating the team’s design tools and testing key componentry ahead of the design deadline to start the build of […]

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A month after landfall, TowBoatUS hurricane Ian recovery crews face challenges

October 27, 2022

Pine Island, Florida – 10/27/2022 – Nearly one month after making landfall September 28 as a Category 4 storm, Hurricane Ian is still challenging TowBoatUS cleanup crews tasked with salvaging thousands of recreational vessels damaged or destroyed by the historic storm – one of the deadliest in the state’s history. The TowBoatUS on-water towing fleet from Naples to Venice, which typically handles routine on-water assistance for recreational boaters, is now at the center of the recovery effort to remove vessels from waterways, backyards, parks, roads, docks and boat lifts. “Based on the destruction we are seeing, Hurricane Ian was ten […]