America's Cup- Latest news - Oracle Team USA - December 19, 2012
by Oracle Team USA on 20 Dec 2012
Oracle Team USA’s USA-17 training in September 2012 ACEA - Photo Gilles Martin-Raget
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Latest newsletter from Oracle Team USA covering the rebuild of USA-17, the development and building of the team's second AC72 and team activities now and over the Christmas/New Year break
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ABC-TV’s Nick Watt took a ride with Jimmy Spithill and crew during a recent episode of “Nightline.”
VIDEO: ABC "Nightline"
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THE RED BULLETIN
Sailing at the Edge of Control
By Andreas Tzortzis
Photo: © ORACLE TEAM USA / Guilain Grenier
The San Francisco Bay was typically
frosty on a blustery weekday last October. A wind of up to 30 mph had
whipped the 50-degree water into whitecaps, across which crisscrossed a
fighter-jet-looking sailboat helmed by the America’s Cup champ and
wunderkind Australian skipper Jimmy Spithill.
Measuring 72 feet long with a
carbon-fiber “wing sail” 131 feet high, the boat has a racecar’s
unbridled speed and crash potential. In the gilded history of the
America’s Cup series in which it will be raced next summer, there has
never been anything quite like it.
Continue reading in the December issue of The Red Bulletin.
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