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USA-17 [a] (formerly known as BMW Oracle Racing 90 or BOR90) is a sloop rigged racing trimaran built by the American sailing team BMW Oracle Racing to challenge for the 2010 America's Cup.
BMW Oracle's USA-17 training off Valencia, Spain in late January, 2010. The BMW Oracle/Oracle USA team has owned a number of boats, including: USA 71, trial boat for the 2003 America’s Cup. USA 76, race boat for the 2003 America’s Cup. USA 87, used in preparations for the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. USA 98, raced in the Louis Vuitton Cup 2007 ...
BMW Oracle Racing launched a 90-foot (27 m) trimaran in August 2008 in Anacortes, Washington. After three weeks of shakedown cruises, the boat was shipped to San Diego, California where it underwent development for the next fourteen months.
Oracle Team USA 17 is an AC72 class catamaran of Oracle Team USA that successfully defended the 2013 America's Cup. The yacht was donated to the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia , where as of 2017 it is on display.
For the 33rd America's Cup, both the defender and the challenger built 90-foot (27 m) long multihulls. Société Nautique de Genève, defending with team Alinghi, sailed a catamaran. The challenger, BMW Oracle Racing, used a trimaran, replacing its soft sail rig with a towering wing sail—the largest sailing wing
James Spithill (born 28 June 1979) is an Australian yachtsman. [1]In 2010, as skipper and helmsman for BMW Oracle Racing, Spithill won the America's Cup.He defended the cup twice, both times against Emirates Team New Zealand, first successfully in 2013, when Oracle Team USA came back from a −2 penalty score at the start to win 9–8 on the final race; and unsuccessfully in the 2017 America's ...
USA 76 is an American International America's Cup Class yacht. It, and USA 71, were used by the Oracle BMW Racing team in their preparations to challenge for the 2003 America's Cup held in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Neel Trimarans Facility in La Rochelle, France. Photographed April 27, 2015. Neel Trimarans is a manufacturer of trimarans based in La Rochelle, France. [1] [2]The company was founded and is managed by Eric Bruneel, formerly of Fountaine-Pajot, a large and established manufacturer in the same area with a catamaran focus.