ANACORTES — BMW ORACLE Racing confirmed today that the 90-foot carbon fiber trimaran under construction in Anacortes is nearly ready to launch.
The boat is being built for the next America’s Cup sailing regatta. However ongoing litigation between the US-based BMW ORACLE Racing team and the Swiss team Alinghi has called into question just when or where the next America’s Cup will be and whether the regatta will be sailed in multihulls, as BMW ORACLE has planned for, or in more traditional monohull yachts.
The U.S. team’s announcement today marked was its first public acknowledgment that the boat is indeed a trimaran, rather than a catamaran. And the removal of one side of the tent in which the trimaran is housed gave the world its first glimpse of what has been hailed as potentially the most expensive and most advanced racing yacht ever built.
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