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Oracle Team USA

America's Cup

Flying to Efficiency

Tapping the resources of its partner Airbus, Oracle Team USA looks for its incremental gains.

America's Cup World Series

Teasers and Tea Leaves

At the first America’s Cup World Series of 2016 in Oman, AC teams use the practice races to show where they stand in the pecking order.

ORACLE TEAM USA training on flying Moths on the Great Sound in Bermuda.

Flying High With Oracle Team USA

ORACLE TEAM USA has been flying high above the Great Sound in Bermuda since returning from racing at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Portsmouth.

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.

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.

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

Sailing World

Behind the Scenes

America’s Cup shore teams put in countless hours to keep the AC72s on course. Andrew Henderson, Rig Team Manager for Oracle Team USA, shares what goes on behind the scenes.

America's Cup

Flying to Efficiency

Tapping the resources of its partner Airbus, Oracle Team USA looks for its incremental gains.

America's Cup World Series

Teasers and Tea Leaves

At the first America’s Cup World Series of 2016 in Oman, AC teams use the practice races to show where they stand in the pecking order.

ORACLE TEAM USA training on flying Moths on the Great Sound in Bermuda.

Flying High With Oracle Team USA

ORACLE TEAM USA has been flying high above the Great Sound in Bermuda since returning from racing at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Portsmouth.

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.

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.

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

Sailing World

Behind the Scenes

America’s Cup shore teams put in countless hours to keep the AC72s on course. Andrew Henderson, Rig Team Manager for Oracle Team USA, shares what goes on behind the scenes.

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