SEMI FINALS
The top two teams that, at this stage, have both benefited from 18 days without competition, time they will have used for modifications and in-house training and testing with their second boats (if they have one), race against each other again in a best of seven series.

This will be the first time that this pair have raced each other since the early Round Robins, more than five weeks previously. Again the new system helps the strongest team or the team that is improving fastest, by keeping their development out of the limelight until it is needed. The winner of this series goes straight through to the Louis Vuitton Cup Finals.

The second pair in the Semi-Finals, also race a best of seven series. The loser of this side is eliminated and the winner must then go up against the loser of the Double Chance side Semi-Finalist in the best of seven Semi-Finals Repechage series.

The winner of this series becomes the second Finalist.