The Recon Gamble

A new approach to curtail spying in the America’s Cup also intends to feed more content to fans and design teams alike.

DAVE REED

Spying is a long-standing tradition of the America’s Cup, but institutionalized espionage? Never before has this been attempted, but this is the essence of the “joint reconnaissance program” being rolled out ahead of the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona, whereas each team will have its assigned Recon Unit watching and recording every move and every sail, and those findings reported back to everyone—teams, media outlets, keen observers and armchair experts alike. “We came up with the idea through the last Cup,” says Dan Bernasconi, Team New Zealand’s head of design and architect of the recon program. “We saw there was so much hunger for information from our fans, and very little coming out [from within the teams] except during the event itself. The big driver for me was to find…

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