{"id":3907,"date":"2013-02-05T12:11:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2013-02-05T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:11:28","slug":"improved-oracle-team-usa-boat-back-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/improved-oracle-team-usa-boat-back-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved ORACLE TEAM USA Boat Back in the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long time in coming, but ORACLE TEAM USA hit the water on Monday in its\u00a0\u2018better than new\u2019 AC72, named <em>17<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oracle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1138\" title=\"oracle\" src=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oracle1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After conducting load testing over the weekend, <em>17<\/em> was launched on a grey morning in San Francisco, with the team hoping to sail later in the day as the skies began to clear.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: \u00a9 Guilain GRENIER \/ ORACLE TEAM USA<\/p>\n<p>This is the first of the two AC72 wing sail catamarans that ORACLE TEAM USA will build. It has been in the shed for repairs since a spectacular capsize in mid-October. The team\u2019s second AC72 is due to come on stream later in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Grant Simmer says the design and build crews did more than just repair the boat; this is an improved version of boat one, with several key modifications.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve changed to wheel (from tiller) steering, that\u2019s a big one,\u201d he said, referring the bright red steering wheels that are placed at the back of the cockpit in each hull now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fairing on the front beam has become more substantial than it was. We\u2019ve revised a lot of the systems on the boat. We\u2019ve got the next generation of boards in the boat, that was always planned, so we\u2019re moving forward with that. And this is the second wing too. It has subtle developments throughout but the profile is fairly similar to the original one, so it looks quite similar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simmer says the latest version of <em>17<\/em> may show less twist in the platform, one of the characteristics that drew plenty of comment following the first sailing days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount that the platform racked (twisted) was a trade-off with weight and windage in the structure of the boat,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat trade-off is still there. We\u2019ve made some subtle changes that will reduce the racking, but again, it\u2019s a design decision trading off windage and weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simmer says the plan is to work up the boat slowly before turning it loose as the month progresses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we\u2019re taking it cautiously and luckily it\u2019s a light wind day. We\u2019re just getting the systems working on the boat. We\u2019ll be on the mooring for a couple of hours setting things up and then, hopefully, we\u2019ll go for a sail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americascup.com\/en\/news\/8\/teams\/11540\/improved-oracle-team-usa-boat-back-in-the-water\">www.americascup.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long time in coming, but ORACLE TEAM USA hit the water on Monday in its\u00a0\u2018better than new\u2019 AC72, named 17. After conducting load [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising-news","category-news-and-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}