{"id":4184,"date":"2008-01-30T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.vplp.fr\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2023-12-14T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:43:49","slug":"usa17-bmw-oracle-racing-90-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/en\/racing\/usa17\/","title":{"rendered":"USA17 (BMW Oracle Racing 90)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2007 Russell Coutts approached VPLP to design <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USA\u00a017<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the fastest racing sailing boat <\/span><b>to contest the America\u2019s Cup<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Little did the team know that the project would take three years of relentless modifications, improvements and developments to produce a trimaran featuring <\/span><b>35\u00a0m floats and a 68\u00a0m pivoting wing mast!<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Proof of the pudding came in 2010 with <\/span><b>victory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the Swiss catamaran <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alinghi<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in both races of the 33rd America\u2019s Cup in Valencia (Spain).<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10656\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10656\" src=\"https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bmw-oracle-trimaran-course-vplp-design-768x512-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bmw-oracle-trimaran-course-vplp-design-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bmw-oracle-trimaran-course-vplp-design-768x512-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Gilles Martin-Raget<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For VPLP, it was <\/span><b>the most enriching and intense investment of time and energy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the firm had ever known. Winning the America\u2019s Cup justified VPLP\u2019s approach of continuously researching and testing hypotheses. It also vindicated the firm\u2019s policy of <\/span><b>optimizing weight, power<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and simple yet efficient sail plans, a policy applied to each and every boat designed by VPLP.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10658\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10658\" src=\"https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bmw-oracle-racing-vplp-design-768x512-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bmw-oracle-racing-vplp-design-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bmw-oracle-racing-vplp-design-768x512-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Gilles Martin-Raget<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007 Russell Coutts approached VPLP to design USA\u00a017, the fastest racing sailing boat to contest the America\u2019s Cup. Little did the team know that the project would take three years of relentless modifications, improvements and developments to produce a trimaran featuring 35\u00a0m floats and a 68\u00a0m pivoting wing mast! Proof of the pudding came in 2010 with victory over the Swiss catamaran Alinghi in both races of the 33rd America\u2019s Cup in Valencia (Spain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1450,1451,1471,1473,1482,1488,1490,1492,1496,1517,1523,1526,1476,1483,1479,1501],"tags":[1527],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","category-en-en","category-programs","category-racing-en","category-sizes","category-hulls","category-trimaran-en","category-propulsion-en","category-categories-en","category-awards","category-pole-en","category-pole-racing","category-years","category-over-100-feet","category-2000-2009-en","category-others","tag-project"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>USA17 (BMW Oracle Racing 90) - 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