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Sailing America’s Cup – America’s Cup: Bows, Stress and Weight

   Posted by: admin   in Boating, Sailing

Over the past two days, the sailing world has glimpsed some of the most advanced sailing technology ever seen.

Last Monday BMW Oracle Racing relaunched their trimaran, BOR90 after a period of substantial modification following several session sailing trials off Anacortes and San Diego.

Like Alinghi 5 revealed the day before in Villeneuve, Switzerland, BOR90 featured the wave piercer bow – one of several modifications from her previous mode.

Sail-World asked multihull and high performance sailing guru, Steve Clark how these bows work and that the designers are trying to achieve with this style…  Details & Great Pictures

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