America’s Cup

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Bieker’s Cavitation Fix

SW contributor Steve Orsini met up with Paul Bieker, Appendage Design Engineer for Oracle Team USA, in Anacortes, Wash., and got some interesting insight behind Oracle’s mid-series improvement leap.

Grant Simmer

Aussies Return to Cup

Oracle Team USA’s general manager Grant Simmer shares his insight into Oracle’s unlikely victory … and a glimpse of what we may see ahead for AC35 with Hamilton Island YC as the challenger of record.

Race 19: A dead-even start for the final race saw the boats side by side going into the hairpin turn at the first mark, with Emirates in the favorable inside position. Barker arced gracefully downwind at nearly 50 mph, while Oracle crashed down off its foils and submerged the entire platform. On Day 1, it would’ve been the end of them, but they jumped right back on the foil (“Nice recovery boys,” said Ainslie casually) and chipped away at New Zealand’s lead. Barker was first to the leeward gate with a marginal lead, but Oracle gained at each crossing upwind, rounding the weather mark with a 500-meter lead. 
Photo: Luna Rossa/Carlo Borlenghi

AC34 in Photos

Oracle Team USA’s defense of the 34th America’s Cup was hailed as the greatest comeback in sport. Flip through this recap of the racing.

Video: From ETNZ Base

A video from Useful Films captures the Emirates Team NZ fans watching the 34th America’s Cup at Shed 10.

San Francisco
34th AMERICA'S CUP
America's Cup final
Oracle Team Usa wins the 34th Americ'as Cup
Race 19

Photo: © LUNA ROSSA/Carlo Borlenghi

AC34: Race 19

Oracle Team USA won Race 19 of the 34th America’s Cup to clinch the Auld Mug. Photos: LUNA ROSSA/Carlo Borlenghi

San Francisco
34th AMERICA'S CUP
America's Cup final
Oracle Team USA CEO Larry Ellison
Race 17 - 18

Photo: © LUNA ROSSA/Carlo Borlenghi

One and Done

SW editor Dave Reed talks to the Wall Street Journal about the race for the all hardware.

Sailing World

Bieker’s Cavitation Fix

SW contributor Steve Orsini met up with Paul Bieker, Appendage Design Engineer for Oracle Team USA, in Anacortes, Wash., and got some interesting insight behind Oracle’s mid-series improvement leap.

Grant Simmer

Aussies Return to Cup

Oracle Team USA’s general manager Grant Simmer shares his insight into Oracle’s unlikely victory … and a glimpse of what we may see ahead for AC35 with Hamilton Island YC as the challenger of record.

Race 19: A dead-even start for the final race saw the boats side by side going into the hairpin turn at the first mark, with Emirates in the favorable inside position. Barker arced gracefully downwind at nearly 50 mph, while Oracle crashed down off its foils and submerged the entire platform. On Day 1, it would’ve been the end of them, but they jumped right back on the foil (“Nice recovery boys,” said Ainslie casually) and chipped away at New Zealand’s lead. Barker was first to the leeward gate with a marginal lead, but Oracle gained at each crossing upwind, rounding the weather mark with a 500-meter lead. 
Photo: Luna Rossa/Carlo Borlenghi

AC34 in Photos

Oracle Team USA’s defense of the 34th America’s Cup was hailed as the greatest comeback in sport. Flip through this recap of the racing.

Video: From ETNZ Base

A video from Useful Films captures the Emirates Team NZ fans watching the 34th America’s Cup at Shed 10.

San Francisco
34th AMERICA'S CUP
America's Cup final
Oracle Team Usa wins the 34th Americ'as Cup
Race 19

Photo: © LUNA ROSSA/Carlo Borlenghi

AC34: Race 19

Oracle Team USA won Race 19 of the 34th America’s Cup to clinch the Auld Mug. Photos: LUNA ROSSA/Carlo Borlenghi

San Francisco
34th AMERICA'S CUP
America's Cup final
Oracle Team USA CEO Larry Ellison
Race 17 - 18

Photo: © LUNA ROSSA/Carlo Borlenghi

One and Done

SW editor Dave Reed talks to the Wall Street Journal about the race for the all hardware.

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