The 2013 Red Bull Youth America's Cup was the inaugural Youth Americas Cup and was held in San Francisco, California from 1–4 September alongside the 34th America's Cup. The Youth America's Cup used the America's Cup 45 AC45F class, a one-design foiling wingsail catamaran designed by Oracle Racing. The yachts have 6 crew on board with teams having one additional substitute (skipper, helm, strategist, main trimmer, jib trimmer and bow). All athletes were aged between 19 and 24 years old.
Teams Five teams were selected as they were sponsored by the teams competing in the America's Cup World Series and the other five were selected from other nations worldwide.
10 teams entered into a total of 8 fleet races, although the eighth race was cancelled due to wind speed exceeding the 18-knot limit.
Team Yacht Club Skipper Crew Swedish Youth Challenge Charlie Ekberg Charlie Ekberg, Niclas Düring, Nils Åkervall, Andreas Axelsson, Jonathan Ameln, Tom Gross All In Racing Phillipp Buhl or Erik Heil Max Kohlhoff Team Tilt Lucien Cujean Next World Energy Arthur Ponroy Antoine Lauriot-Prevost Objective Australia Jason Waterhouse ROFF/Cascais Sailing Team Barnardo Freitas Sail Team NZL with Emirates Team New Zealand Peter Burling (sailor) Blair Tuke, Jono Spurdle, Guy Endean, Andy Maloney, Sam Meech and Jason Saunders Full Metal Jacket Racing Will Tiller American Youth Sailing Force Mike Menninger or Ian Andrewes Mikey Radziejowski USA45 Racing Charlie Buckingham
Results Points are awarded to each of the finishing boats with 1st place awarded 10 pts, 2nd awarded 9, 3rd 8, 4th 7, 5th 6 and 6th 5.
Team R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Points1 Sail Team NZL with Emirates Team New Zealand 2 RDG* 7 3 1 1 4 - 572 Full Metal Jacket Racing 7 1 4 6 6 3 5 - 453 ROFF/Cascais Sailing Team 3 6 1 8 8 5 2 - 444 Team Tilt 8 5 2 2 9 7 1 - 435 American Youth Sailing Force 1 7 3 5 7 4 8 - 42 6 Swedish Youth Challenge 6 2 9 1 4 6 10 - 397 Object Australia RDG 10 6 10 2 3 DNS** - 388 Next World Energy 4 4 8 4 5 9 6 - 379 All in Racing 5 8 5 9 3 8 9 - 3010 USA45 Racing 9 9 10 7 10 10 7 - 15 Citation:
* RDG - Redress awarded by international jury ** DNS - Did Not Start (team awarded no points)
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