ORACLE TEAM USA won the 34th America’s Cup in a winner-take-all 19th race, defeating challenger Emirates Team New Zealand by 44 seconds in today’s clincher. Led by 35-year-old skipper Jimmy Spithill, ORACLE TEAM USA won by the score of 9-8.
This is the second America’s Cup win for ORACLE TEAM USA and Spithill, which won the 162-year-old trophy in Valencia, Spain, in February 2010. Then 30 years of age, Spithill became the youngest to ever skipper a Cup winning team.
In the past week ORACLE TEAM USA has steadily improved its boatspeed to the point where it could hydrofoil upwind at 30-32 knots, incredible performance never seen before in the America’s Cup … Pictures and more
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The fourth edition of the PWA Cold Hawaii World Cup saw Cold Hawaii show almost every dimension it has to offer – from cross off down the line wave riding, in perfect peeling waves to cross onshore jumping, as well as a couple of days with amazing surf with light winds, which was mixed with a combination of sunshine, rain and rainbows – to demonstrate just how dynamic and amazing this place really is.
This years event boiled down to the final day – Super Sunday – in order to gain the fourth consecutive result, and that’s exactly what happened as Marcilio ‘Brawzinho’ Browne (Goya Windsurfing / MFC) produced a superb display to claim his maiden victory on the PWA Wave World Tour.
The trials for the main event were held on the second day in amazing down the line wave riding conditions in waves of … More
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Since 1980, there has been a misunderstanding that we are a French company. It might be that fancy accent over over the e, or maybe the over abundance of ‘Merican mispronunciation, but truth is, we’ve cut our teeth in the Wasatch Mountains on the lightweight backcountry gear we make right here in Salt Lake City, Utah, long before many of you were splitin’ peas and ham in your diapers.
With a little help from the folks at Powderwhore Productions, we made this edit to clear up the confusion.
So why do we have a French name? Shoot, Wally the founder told us to save that ditty for a windy day
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G’day Deano and the crew.
This is from us back home. You’ll be having some strategy meeting. Knocking around a few ideas. Hell, you might even be asleep. Us at home? We’re doing that too. You’ll have your eye on the big picture, the San Francisco bay weather, the clouds, the rules, what the Americans (or is it Aussies?) are doing to their boat over night. Probably giving the big outboard motor a polish, if the last few days are anything to go by.
We don’t know about any of that stuff. We know bugger all about sailing … More
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