David “Freddie” Carr is helping to keep Britain’s yacht flying over the Mediterranean waves at the 37th America’s Cup by pounding on the pedals inside his cockpit.

A change in this year’s rules has given rise to a special class of sailors known as “cyclors,” who generate enormous power with their legs to move the controls of some of the world’s fastest hydrofoil yachts.

It was a lot of nothing today at the Youth America's Cup as early morning clouds delivered rain to the area before