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BERMUDA – Finally the wait is over for Oracle Team USA, which unveiled the boat it will race 100 days from now in the America’s Cup. Oracle revealed its America’s Cup Class race boat Tuesday ...
1 The AC72-class rule is the result. While Oracle is in the shed, fixing the smashed boat, the other teams are out practicing. It’s anyone’s race now. In a nod to at least some tradition ...
A $10 million, 72-foot catamaran being sailed by America's Cup champion Oracle Racing capsized in San Francisco Bay on Tuesday. The boat was practicing for next year's competition. None of the 11 ...
Even to the untrained eye, the boat, officially known as BMW Oracle Racing 90, is an engineering marvel, one that went from blueprints to sails-up in less than nine months. Her sleek, carbon-fiber ...
The boat was being skippered by Jimmy Spithill, who led Oracle to a two-race sweep of Alinghi of Switzerland in 2010 to bring the America's Cup to San Francisco. The boat was believed to be ...
On Tuesday, BMW Oracle Racing began stress tests to make sure the carbon fiber boat can handle the enormous loads that will be put on it by the rigging. BMW Oracle Racing, owned by Silicon Valley ...
The boat was traveling about 20 knots or 23 miles ... Larry Ellison, the Oracle Corp. founder and CEO owns BMW Oracle Racing. The team is backed by San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club.
Leading up to the main event, which was held in San Francisco Bay in 2013 using 72-foot catamarans, was the America's Cup World Series, for which the Oracle team prepared three 45-foot multi-hull race ...
VALENCIA, SPAIN — Shifting winds thwarted BMW Oracle Racing’s USA 98 on Monday, when the American boat, which had finished second in round-robin racing, was upset by Italy’s Luna Rossa as ...
"I don't even know why the race committee had that boat there," Coutts said ... It wasn't a perfect day for Ainslie. Oracle's Jimmy Spithill drew a contact foul from him at the start of their ...