The South African Team Shosholoza has become the first team to launch a new generation America’s Cup Class boat, built to Version 5 of the class rule. At a ceremony in Valencia, Spain on Thursday evening, RSA 83 was christened ‘Shosholoza’ by Rita Barberá, the Mayor of Valencia.
Team founder and leader Captain Salvatore Sarno was […]
Massive global sponsorship for Shosholoza - South Africa’s America’s Cup contender - has taken the highly-motivated team to a new level.
Now, Durban-based Capt Salvatore Sarno, the managing director of Team Shosholoza, which will be competing in the big race in 2007, is starting to “seriously think” that if the crew approaches the level of their […]
Long before Marcello Burricks was born, South Africa’s apartheid police swept his mother and her family from their home in Simon’s Town, a period-piece village on the Cape of Good Hope, and dispatched them to an impoverished ghetto called Slangkop, or Snakehead. Their sin was being of mixed race in a place reserved for whites. […]
A plan to take the yacht Shosholoza out of the water to assess damage after a collision with a whale in Table Bay had to be put on hold when the crane to lift her out broke down early on Tuesday.
Shosholoza skipper Geoff Meek and navigator Marc Lagesse were injured during the sail training session […]
Team Shosholoza will be given a major injection of America’s Cup sailing and technical expertise following the arrival last week of a top German international yachtsman who has joined the team in a professional capacity.
Tim Kruger, who crewed on the French Le Defi Areva Challenge in the 2001-2003 America’s Cup in Auckland and again in […]
A pair of whales roaming the Southern Hemisphere damaged an America’s Cup bid and an around-the-world attempt at a speed record during the past two weeks.
Of Feb. 15, South Africa’s first America’s Cup challenger suffered internal structural damage and three crewmen were injured when the 75-foot sloop Shosholoza had a head-on collision with a southern […]
Most people dream at night, but visionary Captain Salvatore Sarno dreams with his eyes open.
That’s what former Durban veteran sailor, Ian Ainslee, a world-class yachting champion, told Sarno, who had been considering buying a second-hand racing yacht.
For Sarno, the Durban-based shipping tycoon - he is the chairman of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (the second […]
In the current sporting environment, it is all too easy to be a stand alone sponsor, who pays an amount of money to have their name attached to a sporting team or event. In South Africa, all too often a sponsor is seen only as the name emblazoned across a football player or rugby player’s […]
Team Shosholoza skipper Geoff Meek and navigator Marc Lagesse were injured during a sail training session in Table Bay today when yacht Shosholoza RSA 48 hit a whale while sailing at 10 knots under spinnaker. The sudden impact brought the yacht to a dead stop. SA Olympic sailor Ian Ainslie, who was on the helm […]
T-Systems, the business customer brand of Deutsche Telekom, is “Official Chief Sponsor” of the South African America’s Cup Team Shosholoza. The high-tech boat Sho-sholoza will not only bear the T-Systems logo at the highest-profile competition in international sailing from 2005 to 2007, but will also receive extensive support from its chief sponsor in the areas […]
Secrecy and high security has surrounded the local design and building of South Africa’s first state-of-the-art America’s Cup class racing yacht which started this week at an undisclosed boat yard near Cape Town. Building of the new 25 metre ultra hi-tech racing machine involves advanced “oven baked” construction techniques, while the structure itself has evolved […]
A 100kg Westville man has landed one of the most gruelling jobs on the South African yacht, the Shosholoza, whose crew is in training for the prestigious America’s Cup Race.
Yesterday, Camron Wills was out at sea off Cape Town, training hard for the big race in 2007 and several other high-profile, pre-race regattas.
Team Shosholoza recently […]
South Africa will be represented in the prestigious America’s Cup for the first time when Team Shosholoza takes its place among the challengers in 2007.
The first syndicate from the African continent will join five other challengers in the field for the Louis Vuitton Cup in Valencia, to battle for the right to challenge Swiss team, […]
Secrecy and high security has surrounded the local design and building of South Africa’s first state-of-the-art America’s Cup class racing yacht which started this week at an undisclosed boat yard near Cape Town. Building of the new 25 metre ultra hi-tech racing machine involves advanced “oven baked” construction techniques, while the structure itself has evolved […]
The SA America’s Cup Yacht Shosholoza RSA 48 will be flying a vast Aids ribbon painted on their 33 metre spinnaker on Wednesday 1 December in support of World Aids Day.
Weather and wind direction depending Shosholoza will sail as close inshore as possible off Sea Point, Green Point and the V&A Waterfront so that the […]
South African Americas Cup yachting team unveiled a huge new spinnaker adorned with a 33-metre symbol of the fight against AIDS recently as part of a new campaign by the world’s two most populous nations to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to […]
Team Shosholoza skipper Geoff Meek and crack SA America’s Cup crew members Alex Runciman, Guido Verhovert and Marc Lagesse finished eighth overall in the final standing today of the Nippon Cup, a Swedish Match Tour event, held in Tokyo, Japan. The South Africans beat Japan’s top three match racing skippers plus a German skipper Sven-Erik […]
South Africa’s America’s Cup Team Shosholoza lost three tough matches at the Swedish Match Tour’s Nippon Cup in Japan today (Friday) which puts paid to their chance of going forward to the semi finals which will be sailed off tomorrow (Saturday). Only a major upset would have changed today’s result as the four member team […]
Four victories in six match races had the SA America’s Cup Team Shosholoza smiling today despite having to sail in pouring rain and miserable 12 degree weather in the Nippon Cup, a Swedish Match Tour event, being held in Japan. The South African’s beat Germany’s Sven-Erik Horsch plus three Japanese teams led by Japan’s top […]
With one group of crews sailing six flights and the other group two, there’s no clear leader after Day 1.
HAYAMA, Japan — The Pizza-La Red Lobster Nippon Cup, Stage 4 of the 2004-’05 Swedish Match Tour, got underway today with six crews sailing five flights and the other six sailing two flights. Due to the […]