Energy Team has officially become Challenger for the 34th America’s Cup. Launched and run by Loïck and Bruno Peyron, this challenge is backed by the prestigious Yacht Club de France…
Continue Reading ...USA 17 has only ever competed twice, but she sailed the races of her life to dominate the Swiss defender, Alinghi, off Valencia, Spain, last year and win the 33rd America’s Cup.
Continue Reading ...02/2010 – BMW ORACLE Racing Team’s revolutionary wing sail powered trimaran USA-17, designed by VPLP [read our article], convincingly won Race 2 off Valencia today to win the 33rd America’s Cup match outright. The American team, founded ten years ago by software mogul Larry Ellison, achieved its ultimate goal when they powered across the finish […]
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – DOGZILLA ATTACKS. The BMW Oracle Team goes on testing their new trimaran in California. At sea since August 25th, 2008, the BOR 90 is now berthed in her new base, after having sailed in Anacortes (North East of the USA). Symbolically, the team has settled down where Dennis Conner and his team Stars […]
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Once again Emirates Team New Zealand has entered the history books and won the America’s Cup for New Zealand for the fourth time.
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Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand have won the 35th America’s Cup.
Continue Reading ...08/2010 – Steve Clark has been dreaming of winning back the Little America’s Cup for the USA ever since he lost it to Canada in 2007. In 1996, Clark’s 25- foot C-Class Catamaran Cogito (pronounced with a soft g) had blown away designers and engineers with its mammoth wing sail and unmatchable speed, and with […]
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – Russell Coutts, CEO and Skipper of BMW ORACLE Racing, today announced that BOR 90, the syndicate’s state-of-the-art trimaran, has successfully completed Phase I of its sea trials in San Diego. The 90 foot high-tech trimaran now will undergo further modifications to improve performance based on the team’s experiences with the trimaran on the […]
Continue Reading ...08/2008 – Following some statements made lately by BMWOracle’s CEO Russel Coutts, Sébastien Destremau asked his comments to Alinghi skipper’s Brad Butterworth. (Lausanne 4 August 2008) Sebastien Destremau: Brad Butterworth, you have won the last four America’s Cup as Tactician/Skipper making you the most successful sailor by anyones standards. Your friend Russell Coutts recently said […]
Continue Reading ...Winds had abated after yesterday’s storm off the Cote d’Azur, but sadly the sea state on the Rade de Toulon was considered too large for the nimble flying catamarans to race safely on day one of the GC32 TPM Med Cup. Following Toulon’s hosting of the America’s Cup World Series in 2016, the GC32 TPM […]
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