The BMW Oracle Racing team put BOR90 through her paces off San Diego, this time apparently in full race mode and in a reasonable breeze, with her foils fully deployed. Sir Russell Coutts was also sailing.
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When he encountered pirates on the Indian Ocean he loaded his pistol and locked himself in his cabin.
Near the island of Grenada he survived a 20-foot rogue wave that nearly sent him sprawling overboard at 2 a.m.
There was also the four straight days without sleep while he repaired rigging in a storm, the 24 straight hours of plowing through 10-foot seas, and the 13 months of living on canned food and desalinated water.
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The challengers for the next America’s Cup revealed preliminary details to race an enormous vessel nicknamed “Dogzilla” that is nearly the size of two basketball courts.
The 90-foot-by-90-foot (27.4-meter-by-27.4-meter) trimaran will challenge defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland in the next edition of yachting’s most prestigious race, off the United Arab Emirates in 2010, the U.S.-based BMW Oracle team said in a statement on Monday
“We’re pleased to publicly confirm that the BOR 90, which will continue to undergo modifications, is the boat that will compete for the 33rd America’s Cup in 2010,” BMW Oracle said.
“Dogzilla” has an overall waterline length of 100 feet. The mast is 185 feet. The three sails are 6,800, 6,700, and 8,400 square feet (632, 622 and 780 square meters) — each about 30 percent bigger than the sails used in the last America’s Cup in Valencia, Spain, in 2007.
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Forty seven-year-old Australian “adrenaline junkie” Sean Langman will attempt to break the 50-knot sailing speed barrier with his half sailboat, half plane, after a serious crash last summer.
Langman, a shipyard owner and yachtsman, is intent on beating the French-set record within the next few weeks, with the “Wot Rocket,” a canoe-style pod with a nine meter-long rigid sail.
The Wot Rocket is waiting for confirmation from the World Sailing Speed Record Council to attempt, once again, an unprecedented technology known as “supercavitation” — sailing just above the water in a gas bubble created by the deflection of water. This is to to …Â Â Details