Oracle Racing
One month to go to the 33rd America’s Cup Match.
Today marks the 'one month to go' date before race one of the 33rd America’s Cup Match.
Oracle Racing
With the BOR 90 now safely delivered to Valencia, the home of the 33rd Match, the shore team is working flat out to ensure that when the trimaran is handed over to the sailing crew, to move into 'race mode', the boat is match fit and ready to race. The sailors are using that time to get match fit as well. Training sessions on the Extreme 40 catamarans are scheduled over the coming week. The objective is to hone their match racing and starting skills in multihulls before shifting their attention to the BOR 90. In the meantime, skipper and helmsman James Spithill (AUS) met with the local media on Friday morning, to welcome them back to the team Base in the Dársena and to update them on the team’s progress ahead of the Match. "It’s exciting for us to be back here in Valencia," he said. "I had a fantastic experience here in the last Cup. We’ve been saying for two years now that Valencia is the right place for this America’s Cup so we’re thrilled to be here and we can’t wait to get racing in February. We have a lot of work to do over the next four weeks, but our team is highly motivated and focused on the challenge and we’ve been training really hard to get ready. "The boats that both teams have built are like nothing you’ve ever seen before and over the coming days and weeks, as we get into our final training sessions, you’ll be able to appreciate them for what they are – two of the most technologically advanced and fastest boats ever built. The Match is going to be fantastic." The first race of the 33rd America's Cup Match is scheduled for February 8. Hull Mast Wing Design and R&D Sails Equivalent Size Sailing Team • Tactician John Kostecki (USA) Notes on the wing The wing is primarily constructed from carbon fibre and kevlar with a light, shrinkable aeronautical film material used as an overall skin over the frame. Nearly 40,000 man-hours of construction went into building it. According to Joseph Ozanne, an aeronautical specialist with the BMW ORACLE Racing design team, the ability to trim the wing easily is one of its big advantages over a soft sail.Fact Sheet - BMW ORACLE Racing 90.
Boat Type: Trimaran of carbon composite construction
Where Built: Core Builders, Anacortes, WA, USA
Hours to build: over 130,000 hours to date
Overall Length: 100-feet/30 meters
Waterline Length: 90-feet/27 meters
Beam: 90-feet/27 meters
Height: Up to 185-feet/55 meters
Where Built: Hall Spars, Bristol, RI, USA; Core Builders, Anacortes, WA, USA
Height: 187 ft / 57 m (compared to 102 ft / 31 m length of a Boeing 747 wing and 143 ft / 43.5 m length of an Airbus 380 wing)
Chord: 8 to 30 ft / 2.5 to 9 m
Width: 2 to 6 ft / 0.5 to 2.0 m
Surface area: 6725 sq. ft / 625 sq. m
Weight: 7,700 lbs / 3 500 kg (approx)
BMW ORACLE Racing Design Team
Mike Drummond, Director; 30 designers and scientists
Principal Naval Architects: VPLP (Van Peteghem and Lauriot Prévost)
Mainsail: 6800 square feet; (630m2)
Genoa: 6700 square feet; (620m2)
Gennaker: 8400 square feet; (780m2)
• The infield of a professional baseball diamond
• Two basketball courts
BMW ORACLE Racing Sailing Team (20 sailors on BOR 90 testing team)
• Skipper Russell Coutts (NZL)
• Helmsman James Spithill (AUS)
The wing sail consists of two main components: the main element and the flap element. The main element is one single piece that rotates around the mast step. Eight individual flaps rotate around the trailing edge of the main element. Both elements are separated by a small gap and linked together by nine main hinges.
