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Okay, but since when was a sail bigger than a jet airliner's wing?...BMW Oracle's massive 58 metre wing mast is a gobsmacking piece of kit...It is just short of the total wingspan, including fuselage, of a jumbo jet...It is built of carbon fibre and kevlar,...
Tags: BMW Oracle, America, soft sail, Alinghi, wing sail, wing masts, New Zealand, Auckland, Catamaran, Sail, Yacht, Mast, America's Cup, Trimaran
America's Cup solution offered by Alinghi 06/11/2009 5:48:08 Alinghi is offering a solution to the current America's Cup deadlock. It is suggesting that it take on Oracle off Australia's east coast in February. It says the Australia option provides...
Tags: Alinghi, America, Australia, BMW Oracle, challenger bmw, east coast
America's Cup champion Alinghi wants the right to defend its title in the Persian Gulf. The Swiss-based syndicate said Monday it will appeal last week's ruling rejecting United Arab Emirates as the site for the race against the American team BMW Oracle.
Tags: American, Alinghi, BMW Oracle, New York Supreme Court, Ras al-Khaimah
San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club has taken legal action to try to remove Swiss yacht club Societe Nautique de Geneve as America's Cup trustee. More Sports Golden Gate filed a breach of fiduciary duty complaint with the New York State Supreme Court...
Tags: America, Alinghi, SNG, BMW Oracle, golden gate, Oracle Corp., fiduciary duty, supreme courts
Capable of carrying 20 tonnes, the Russian MI-26 took 30 minutes to complete the operation, which was watched anxiously by Alinghi's Ernesto Bertarelli and his British wife Kirsty, who have forked out more than £6 million on the new 90 ft multihull. After...
Tags: Alinghi, Swiss America, BMW Oracle
Staff Report Published: April 25, 2009, 22:45 Cagliari: Thanks to a third and a first, the American combination in BMW Oracle Racing with Larry Ellison at the helm and Russell Coutts calling the shots, took the lead of the fleet regatta ahead of Team...
Tags: BMW Oracle
Challenger BMW Oracle says it hopes to negotiate a conventional America's Cup series with current holder Alinghi and avoid a one-race showdown between the two yachts. Challenger of Record by a New York court last week, a decision that gives the American...
Tags: American, Alinghi, BMW Oracle
On Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals declared BMW Oracle Racing the official challenger to Alinghi, a Swiss team that won the America’s Cup in 2003 and successfully defended it in Valencia in 2007. Still unknown is where, when or in what boats the...
Tags: BMW Oracle, Alinghi, champion alinghi
Team New Zealand has bounced back from yesterday's loss to claim victory on day two of round robin two at sailing's Louis Vuitton Pacific Series regatta in Auckland. Dean Barker and crew have comfortably overcome Luna Rossa by 26-seconds. However, gear...
Tags: Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, Alinghi, Oracle Racing, Team New Zealand, BMW Oracle, Team Origin, Damiani Italia Challenge, America, TeamOrigin
BMW Oracle will look to compete in a match racing series in New Zealand next year that was only created because of an America's Cup court standoff partly caused by the American yacht syndicate. BMW Oracle today said they would be contacting sponsor Louis...
Tags: American, Team New Zealand, Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, BMW Oracle, Alinghi, Rob Waddell