By Colin Thompson

Sailing Correspondent

Oracle Team USA will not be the only America’s Cup syndicate sailing around the Great Sound over the next two weeks.

Artemis Racing, who are among the challengers vying for Oracle’s America’s Cup title, have arrived on Island with several team members including Nathan Outteridge, the helmsman, Olympic gold medal-winner and Moth world champion.

“We’ve got a small team in Bermuda getting our temporary team base set up and starting to sail on the sound in our small-boat fleet,” Outteridge said. “We’re just small-boat sailing for the next fortnight, getting to know the venue a bit better. We have a handful of Moths and our two Phantoms.

“We’re hoping to get some time on the water this week in the moths, but it looks like it’s going to be a breezy end of the week.”

Artemis’s souped-up wing-sail foiling AC45 catamaran is scheduled on Island soon.

“The turbo is scheduled to arrive next month,” Outteridge confirmed. “We’ll be putting it back together and getting it in the water as quick as we can.”

Outteridge’s visit to Bermuda is his second in six months. The Australian skipper competed in the Argo Group Gold Cup in October with Artemis team-mates Iain Percy, Christian Kamp and Iain Jensen. It was the first time the team had raced together.

“Last year’s Gold Cup was my first visit to Bermuda and it’s great to be back.” Outteridge said.

Outteridge and Jensen won the gold medal in the 49er Skiff at the 2012 Olympics in London, while Kamp and Percy sailed with Sir Ben Ainslie, the team principal and helmsman of British America’s Cup challenger Ben Ainslie Racing, at the 2013 Gold Cup.

Artemis Racing, the Swedish challenger, was one of two America’s Cup syndicates represented at last year’s Gold Cup, the other being Luna Rossa who withdrew from the 35th America’s Cup this month criticising decisions by organisers as unprecedented and illegitimate.

Luna Rossa and Team New Zealand voted against reducing the size of the catamarans from 62ft to 48ft for the second time in less than a year. However, both teams were overruled by a majority of teams, led by two-times defending champion Oracle Team USA.

The America’s Cup class rules could be changed only by unanimous consent, but Oracle Team USA led an amendment to change the class rule to a majority vote.