America's Cup: Four French multihull designers join Team New Zealand?

7:25 AM Thu 7 Oct 2010 GMT

'Guillaume Verdier/VPLP' Vincent Curutchet / DPPI / Vend?e Globe &copy

First positive signs for a New Zealand America's Cup Challenge seem to have emerged in France with the reputable French sailing magazine Voiles et Voilers reporting that Team New Zealand have signed a group of top multihull designers to augment the existing Team NZ design team. The publication says that the the designer Guillaume Verdier and his three regular 'collaborators' Herve Penformis, Benjamin Muyl and Romaric Neyhousser have joined the team, but will still be based in France. The four designers and engineers of the Verdier team have worked together on the Hydraplaneur of Yves Parlier, then on Multi 50 ...

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by Richard Gladwell