ORACLE Racing will kick off its 2013 training program at Marsden Point in Northland, New Zealand. This location has been selected thanks to being situated quite close to Core Builders Composites in Warkworth, the company which constructs plenty of the key components for ORACLE Racing’s two AC72 wingsail catamaran yachts. ... read full story
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America’s Cup World Series: Friday in Naples offered new challenges
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Light, offshore winds battling with an onshore swell, offered new challenges to the nine teams competing in the 34th America's Cup World Series in Naples, Italy, on Friday. ... read full story
US Ambassador in Italy to experience the Naples AC World Series
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Ambassador David Thorne experienced the first day’s competing at the Naples AC World Series today, watching the two races up close from the support boat of America’s Cup champion ORACLE Racing. As a keen sailor himself, the ambassador was disappointed when the sea conditions prevented him from competing in Race 1 aboard the ORACLE Racing boat skippered by America’s Cup champion James Spithill. ... read full story
Naples AC World Series: ORACLE Racing Spithill ties for daily win after two fleet races
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In difficult conditions on the Bay of Naples, ORACLE Racing Spithill won the first fleet race going away. The quintet followed it up with a 3rd in Race 2 and finished the day tied for the overall lead with Emirates Team New Zealand. With the wind blowing steadily in the 20s and a choppy sea running at 6 to 8 feet, the conditions were rougher today than even in the more sheltered Plymouth, U.K., last September, widely considered the windiest regatta. ... read full story
34th America´s Cup: Licence Agreement between ENERGY TEAM and ORACLE Racing
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The French Challenger ENERGY TEAM has just concluded a major agreement with the American Defender ORACLE Racing. This historic agreement enables ENERGY TEAM to achieve significant time and budget savings whilst maximizing its highest performance potential with its AC72 wingsailed catamaran in the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Series in July and August 2013. ... read full story
ORACLE Racing announces crews for Naples America’s Cup World Series
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ORACLE Racing has unveiled its crews for Naples America’s Cup World Series. The team’s two AC45 catamaran yachts ORACLE Racing Spithill as well as ORACLE Racing Bundock will be skippered, respectively, by Jimmy Spithill and Darren Bundock. ... read full story
ORACLE Racing Spithill wins Match Race championship Cascais, Portugal
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James Spithill and his ORACLE Racing crew swept aside the previously ascendant Emirates Team New Zealand to win the Cascais AC Match Race Championship on Saturday, as the AC World Series Cascais enters the final weekend of racing. Many of the matches featured close starts, blazing speed runs to the first turning mark and early... ... read full story
ORACLE Racing announces two crews for Cascais America’s Cup World Series
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The two crews are headed by America’s Cup legends James Spithill and Russell Coutts, respectively the youngest skipper and the most successful skipper in the 160-year history of the event. ... read full story
America’s Cup: Trimaran USA 17 back home in San Francisco
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The giant America’s Cup-winning trimaran arrived in the Bay today aboard the freighter M.V. Star Isfjord after a 7,900-mile passage from Valencia, Spain, via the Panama Canal. The ship carrying USA 17 trimaran passed underneath the Golden Gate Bridge at 0530 PST and berthed alongside San Francisco's Pier 80 at 0650. ... read full story
America’s Cup winning trimaran USA 17 bound for San Francisco
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The extraordinary carbon-fiber machine USA 17 is being loaded onto the freighter M.V. Star Isfjord this week for the long delivery trip to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. The freighter carrying both USA 17 and her extraordinary 223ft wingsail is scheduled to leave Valencia on January 29 or 30 for the 7,900-nautical-mile passage to the Bay Area. ... read full story