The Mascalzone Latino America’s Cup Sailing Team has bought Dennis Conner’s former America’s Cup boat Stars & Stripes from the One World syndicate.

Having secured the boat, the team, headed by Vincenzo Onorato, is on its way to New Zealand to the Portoferraio base in Auckland to commence training. The team’s new boat, ITA 72-Mascalzone Latino XII, which is currently being built at Tencara shipyard, should be launched by mid April.