Artemis Technologies
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Established | 2006 |
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Notable sailors | Iain Percy Nathan Outteridge Loïck Peyron Paul Goodison Fredrik Lööf Iain Jensen |
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Artemis Technologies (formerly known as Artemis Racing) is a professional sailing team founded in 2006 by businessman and sailor Torbjörn Törnqvist. Named after Artemis, the ancient Greek goddess, it received its current designation after its unsuccessful campaign to compete in the 2017 America's Cup.[citation needed] Artemis Technologies now build their boats in Port Pembroke, west Wales.
History[]
Timeline as Artemis Racing[]
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- 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 was scheduled to be raced in Bermuda in June 2017. The team designed and built their boats for the Cup challenge in 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.
As Artemis Technologies[]
After the 2017 America's cup with Iain Percy as CEO they changed name to Artemis Technologies.[citation needed]
The 13-partner , of which Artemis Technologies was the founder, in May 2020 won a competitive bid for the UK Research and Innovation’s flagship .[7]
In October 2020, Nus Ghani was announced as a non-executive director of the firm, which promised to "revolutionise the future of maritime transport" by winning "the multi-million pound UK government innovation grant... to develop zero-emission ferries in Belfast".[7]
References[]
- ^ "Andrew Simpson, GB Olympian, dies as America's Cup boat capsizes". BBC News. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
- ^ Elias, Paul; Wilson, Bernie (May 9, 2013). "America's Cup Sailor Dies In Boat Capsize". Huffington Post. San Francisco. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
- ^ "America's Cup Boat Capsizes, Leaving 1 Dead" (video). ABC News. May 9, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
- ^ Coté, John (May 10, 2013). "America's Cup catamarans built for speed". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ America's Cup boat capsizes, killing onenzherald.co.nz, 10 May 2013 Archived 20 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Adam Fisher (May 9, 2013). "The Boat That Could Sink the America's Cup". Wired. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Murphy, Simon (8 October 2020). "Former Tory minister criticised for new job at firm she lobbied for". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
External links[]
- America's Cup teams
- Sailing teams
- Extreme Sailing Series teams
- British companies established in 2017
- Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2017
- Shipbuilding companies of England
- Yacht building companies