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Video: ‘Near Miss’ Capsize For Oracle Team USA

Video: ‘Near Miss’ Capsize For Oracle Team USA

With wind speeds near 25 knots on Tuesday [Nov 1], it was a challenging day for Oracle Team USA as it continued its testing program, with the conditions leading to a near-capsize of an AC45S catamaran. Helmsman Tom Slingsby explained, “It was blowing 22 to 25 knots. We did a bear away, we were doing 42 to 43 knots. We got stable out of the bear... Read more of this article

Videos: ‘Get To Know’ Team Oracle Members

Videos: ‘Get To Know’ Team Oracle Members

Two-time America’s Cup winner Oracle Team USA is preparing to defend its title in Bermuda in 2017, with a new video series providing a behind-the-scenes look at the members of the team.The video profiles include coverage of Jimmy Spithill, Tom Slingsby, Kyle Langford, Kinley Fowler, Sam Newton, and Cooper Dressler. America’s Cup: Get To... Read more of this article

Video: Peter Dill Interns With Oracle Team USA

Video: Peter Dill Interns With Oracle Team USA

Meet Bermudian Peter Dill, an intern with Oracle Team USA and part of Bermuda’s Red Bull Youth America’s Cup team. Dill said since he has been interning with the defending America’s Cup champions, he has learned a lot about the boats and the technology that goes into them, and called the experience “really inspiring.” Related... Read more of this article

Sandys Students Visit With Oracle Team USA

Sandys Students Visit With Oracle Team USA

Sandys Secondary Middle School students have been participating in the AC Endeavour program this week. AC Endeavour is the youth education, sailing and life skills program for Bermuda middle school students run in conjunction with the America’s Cup and Oracle Team USA. Each Friday during the school term, AC Endeavour ‘graduates’ spend part of... Read more of this article

AC: Tom Slingsby To Take The Helm In Toulon

AC: Tom Slingsby To Take The Helm In Toulon

Oracle Team USA will have a new hand guiding the team around the race course during the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Toulon this weekend. Sailing team manager and tactician/helmsman Tom Slingsby will take over steering the boat with skipper/helmsman Jimmy Spithill electing not to compete as he rehabs an injured elbow. “I wanted to... Read more of this article

Photos: Oracle Team Clean Up At East End

Photos: Oracle Team Clean Up At East End

Members of Oracle Team USA — the America’s Cup defending champions — spent today helping to clean up East End Primary school saying they “really feel like this is our home” so when they have a chance get out in the community and help out, they want to take it. Education Minister Wayne Scott said, “It’s just amazing,... Read more of this article

America’s Cup Highlights “Ultimate Then & Now”

America’s Cup Highlights “Ultimate Then & Now”

With 165 years of history behind it, the America’s Cup has had a long and storied past, with a recent tweet highlighting some of the differences between then and now by comparing the winning vessel of the event’s inaugural race and defending champion Oracle Team USA’s craft. The photo associated with the tweet shows the two vessels... Read more of this article

Video: Oracle Team Is “Flying Low, Flying High”

Video: Oracle Team Is “Flying Low, Flying High”

In a video dubbed “Flying Low, Flying High,” Oracle Team USA compares America’s Cup sailing with a rigid wing to aviation itself, with Skipper Jimmy Spithill and Aerobatic Pilot Sean D. Tucker combining to highlight the similarities. In the video by John von Seeburg, Mike Herbener, and Tim Davis for Oracle Team USA, Spithill –... Read more of this article

Video: America’s Cup ‘Phenomenon Of Foiling’

Video: America’s Cup ‘Phenomenon Of Foiling’

Oracle Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill and Performance Manager Ian Burns recently discussed the “phenomenon of foiling” in a video, comparing foiling to “flying” and saying “it’s something that every time brings a smile to your face.” Team skipper Jimmy Spithill said, “The feeling for me was foiling was... Read more of this article

CNN: “America’s Cup, A Dream Job In Paradise”

CNN: “America’s Cup, A Dream Job In Paradise”

In a story titled “America’s Cup: A Dream Job In Paradise,” CNN has highlighted one of Team Oracle USA’s sailors who relocated to the island, saying that Matt Cassidy “has his dream job” living on the “beautiful island of Bermuda.” The story said ”Ever thought you’re in the wrong job? Fed... Read more of this article

Video: Wyclef Sings On Oracle Team USA’s Boat

Video: Wyclef Sings On Oracle Team USA’s Boat

“I remember when we used to sit in a Government yard in Bermuda,” sang Wyclef John during his trip on Oracle Team USA’s boat during the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Chicago this weekend. Wyclef was performing a version of Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman No Cry’, which the Fugees covered in their Grammy award... Read more of this article

Oracle To Mentor Bermuda’s Youth Sailing Team

Oracle To Mentor Bermuda’s Youth Sailing Team

Oracle Team USA will mentor Team BDA in preparation for the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, which means the soon-to-be-selected team of young Bermudian sailors will automatically advance to the Qualifying Series on the Great Sound in 2017. The announcement comes as Team BDA contenders tonight [Wednesday March 23] begin the last training camp which... Read more of this article

Video: Team Oracle Capsize During Training

Video: Team Oracle Capsize During Training

All crew are safe and the Oracle Team USA AC45S test platform is secure back at base following a capsize during training in Bermuda on Wednesday afternoon. “It was a great day for training, sunny, 15-20 knots of wind,” said skipper Jimmy Spithill. “So it was a great afternoon of sailing until we capsized. “The boat didn’t tip over through... Read more of this article

‘Oracle 17′ Christened At Team Base In Bermuda

‘Oracle 17′ Christened At Team Base In Bermuda

Oracle Team USA hit another campaign milestone on Monday when the team’s third AC45S test platform was rolled out of the boat shed, christened “Oracle 17”, and lifted into the water for the first time. The boat had a new wing stepped on the platform and underwent a series of system checks dockside at the team base in Bermuda. Boat 3 is expected... Read more of this article

America’s Cup Teams Post 360 Degree Videos

America’s Cup Teams Post 360 Degree Videos

Teams set to compete at the upcoming America’s Cup are experimenting with the trend of offering 360 degree video on YouTube, with both Oracle Team USA and SoftBank Team Japan releasing videos highlighting their training efforts. The video from Oracle Team USA gives viewers a 360 degree view of the team’s workout area, with the sailors utilizing... Read more of this article

AC Donate Optimist Dinghies To Local Sailors

AC Donate Optimist Dinghies To Local Sailors

[Updated with video] The America’s Cup Endeavour community sailing initiative, along with its partners, has today gifted the use of five of 15 Optimist dinghies, to local sailors. The boats were donated several months ago in significant disrepair but have been brought back to ‘as new’ condition through the efforts of the Oracle Team USA shore... Read more of this article