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The first Class America ever built in China will carry the number 95. The building of the hull was completed in Dong Guan and validated by the technical director of tonnage, Ken Mac Alpine. CHN95 will be delivered directly to Valencia from Hong Kong and is expected to arrive mid-December.
 Chinese Numerology: the number 95 as interpreted by Leo, translator-interpretor of CHINA TEAM.
“The number 5 represents the five essential elements: fire, wood, earth, gold and water. These are the founding elements because they enabled the Chinese Gods to create our world. When 9 is added to 5, it adds another, highly symbolic dimension. When you write nine and five in Chinese characters, it signifies 45, or the multiplication of the two figures. The number 45 is full of meaning and very important symbolically because it once represented the age a Chinese man could become king. There is of course a proverb that expresses this idea: “jiu wu zhi zun,” which translates as “at 45 man reaches his peak, the height of his powers and his strengths!”
Why CHN95
The naming of a Class America is made up of two parts. The first three letters represent the country of origin of the Yacht Club, CHN for China, ITA for Italy, NZL for New Zealand, and so on.
The number that follows is attributed by the techincal director of tonnage to every new Class America in chronological order of construction. CHN95 will therefore be the 95th Class America since the beginning of tonnage in 1992. This means a boat can change its nationality but never its number.
ACC Tonnage
The number of a Class America is officially attributed by the technical director of tonnage only if the boat was built according to strict criteria pertaining to tonnage. The tonnage is a document which sets out the rules and obligations relating to the building of the boat, in particular its size, its weight, the measurements of sail surface and also how it is built and the materials employed in its construction.
An equation which has become famous amongst naval architects, associates the three main dimensions of a future race boat:
L being the length in metres, S the total surface of the sails and DSP the displacement of the boat (expressed in cubic metres).
Architects are obliged to respect these three criteria in order to determine, among an infinite number of possibilites, the one which will make their boat sail faster than the others.
Source: CHINA TEAM/Remi Villard |
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