Boats
BMW Oracle Racing owns four IACC boats. USA 71 and USA 76 were built for the 2003 America’s Cup while USA 87 and USA 98 were built for the 2007 America’s Cup.
USA 87: On March 26, 2006, BMW Oracle Racing christened “USA 87”. The hull is two feet shorter than the older boat "USA 76" and features a bow sprit. While this boat was initially believed to have a tandem keel, it is now accepted that the boat uses a conventional single strut keel.
USA 98: USA 98 was delivered in January 2007 and was evaluated against USA 71 until transfer to Valencia, Spain for the Louis Vuitton Cup 2007 campaign.
USA 17 is a trimaran measuring 90-foot (27 m) length-on-waterline, maximum beam of 90-foot (27 m), and length overall of 113-foot (34 m). She was launched on the 22nd of August 2008 in the city of Anacortes, Washington, USA. The boat was BMW Oracle Racing's entry for a Deed of Gift match against SNG/Alinghi that took place in February 2010 in Valencia. The yacht's mainsail is a rigid wing that is 224-foot (68 m) tall and some 55 percent larger than the wing of an Airbus 380 airplane, making it the largest rigid wing ever.
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