America's Cup: Latest news - Oracle Team USA - December 19, 2012

'Oracle Team USA’s USA-17 training in September 2012'    Gilles Martin-Raget: AmericasCup©    Click Here to view large photo 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 If you have a problem seeing this message, click here VIDEO: Wishing You All the Best This Holiday Season TEAM NEWS   Recover Repair Resolve With a little more than a week remaining in the year, the focus for ORACLE TEAM USA hasn’t changed. All eyes have been on 2013 for months, for years, with the same goal in mind: defending the America’s Cup in San Francisco next September. Ask any member of the team their New Year’s resolution and it likely involves winning the Cup. Or more immediately, it’s sailing ORACLE TEAM USA 17 again. Continue reading at www.oracleteamusa.com VIDEO: Ready to Ring in the New Year ON THE AIR ABC-TV’s Nick Watt took a ride with Jimmy Spithill and crew during a recent episode of “Nightline.” VIDEO: ABC "Nightline" IN THE NEWS 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. VIDEO ORACLE TEAM USA Visits the San Francisco Food Bank Members of ORACLE TEAM USA joined a crew of volunteers to sort and pack nearly 1,200 pounds of apples at the San Francisco Food Bank.   www.oracleteamusa.com Copyright © ORACLE TEAM USA - All Rights Reserved. Legal Notice.   by Oracle Team USA - 5:52 AM Thu 20 Dec 2012 GMT Click here for printer friendly version Click here to send us feedback or comments about this story. If you want to send this story to a friend, please use link below http://www.sail-world.com/indexs.cfm?nid=104869 Based on your current download speed Sail-World has delivered large images (660 pixels long side.)  If you would like to see only small images (300 pixels long side) click here .  For medium sized images (500 pixels long side) click here .  If you would prefer to see text only (without pictures) click here Click for further information on 2013 America's Cup Related News Stories: 17 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Artemis Racing's Iain Percy - 'We want to race' 17 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Extended play Am-Cam video of Practice Race 16 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Artemis Racing's CEO interviewed on team recovery 07 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Big cats at play in San Francisco Bay - Video 05 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Clouds on the Bay - what to expect in San Francisco 05 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Oracle Team USA AC72's MOB incident no drill - Video 05 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Artemis Racing sailing again in San Francisco 04 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ's Dalton updates from San Francisco 03 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Outstanding High Definition Video series of AC72 action 02 Jun 2013  America's Cup: Oracle's Spithill retrieved from San Francisco Bay

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