Artemis Racing Explained

Shortname:	Artemis Racing
Fullname:	During the America's Cup World Series, San Francisco Round (2012).
Year:	2006
Chairman:	Torbjörn Törnqvist
Crew:	Iain Percy Nathan Outteridge Loïck Peyron Paul Goodison Fredrik Lööf Iain Jensen Chris Brittle

Artemis Racing is a professional sailing team founded in 2006 by businessman and sailor Torbjörn Törnqvist, named after Artemis, the ancient Greek goddess.

Timeline

• 2007: won the MedCup circuit, then called Breitling Medcup, and the TP52 World Championship.
• 2008: entered the RC44 Championship, winning the fleet racing element in 2009 and the World title in 2011.
• 2009–2010: competed in the Louis Vuitton Trophy regattas. Held in response to long delays from legal action surrounding the America's Cup, the four regattas were each staged in a different country, and teams raced in supplied IACC yachts.
• 2011–2012 America's Cup World Series: won the Match Racing title in both the Naples & Venice Regattas then won the Match Racing titles in the first two regattas of the three-part 2012–2013 season.
• 2013: On May 9, the first of the two AC72 catamarans the team was testing capsized and turtled, resulting in the death of crewmember and British Olympic gold medalist sailor Andrew "Bart" Simpson.^{[1] [2] [3]} This was the second major accident involving the current AC72, following the capsizing of defending Cup champion Oracle Team USA on October 16, 2012.^{[4] [5] [6]}
• 2017: In August 2014, Artemis Racing announced its challenge for the 35th America's Cup which is scheduled to be raced in Bermuda in June 2017. The team designed and built their boats for the 35th America's Cup challenge, from a converted aircraft hangar in Alameda, California. In the challenger series, Artemis progressed to the Louis Vuitton Cup finals, where they were defeated by Emirates Team New Zealand.

See also

• Artemis Technologies

Notes and References

1. News: Andrew Simpson, GB Olympian, dies as America's Cup boat capsizes. 10 May 2013. BBC News. 10 May 2013.
2. News: America's Cup Sailor Dies In Boat Capsize . Paul . Elias . Bernie . Wilson . San Francisco . May 9, 2013 . November 19, 2013 . Huffington Post.
3. News: America's Cup Boat Capsizes, Leaving 1 Dead . ABC News . May 9, 2013 . video . November 19, 2013.
4. News: America's Cup catamarans built for speed. The San Francisco Chronicle . John . Coté . May 10, 2013.
5. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/americas-cup/news/article.cfm?c_id=531&objectid=10882758 America's Cup boat capsizes, killing one
6. News: The Boat That Could Sink the America's Cup . Adam Fisher . . May 9, 2013 . August 14, 2013.