Behind-the-scenes at the America’s Cup photo shoot (Video)
. As the America’s Cup draws ever nearer to San Francisco (the first SF races will be held in late August), the Chronicle style section decided it was a good time to get to know the local Oracle crew....
View ArticleSF’s hometown dream team in the America’s Cup
Very few would recognize a member of SF’s Oracle Racing team walking down the street, so the Chronicle Style Section took some time to get to know the men of Oracle. Their story appears here. Good...
View Article4-time Cup champion sees finish line
In the 161-year history of the America's Cup, Russell Coutts is probably the most influential person. He can't influence the effects of aging, though, especially now that yacht racing has becom...
View ArticleOracle’s home-water advantage
Jimmy Spithill tends to downplay the home-water advantage that he and Russell Coutts have as the skippers of the two Oracle Team USA boats in the America’s Cup World Series. The Oracle crews have been...
View ArticleSpithill vs. Coutts: Let debate begin
Generally, my media pals and I are good at stirring up quarterback controversy, but we’re missing the boat (heh-heh) on a good one. Yes, we will continue to foment angry debate over who should...
View ArticleTowering America’s Cup boat recovered
A day after 11 sailors found the limits of an $8 million racing boat being primed for next year’s America’s Cup, flipping it in San Francisco Bay, they took stock Wednesday of the fallout: shards of...
View ArticleOracle team to drown sorrows at Flugtag
When life destroys your sailboat, make it into a plane? That’s what Oracle Team USA is doing with the shards of the $8 million racing catamaran AC72 that toppled in San Francisco Bay and was swept out...
View ArticleOracle Team USA launches new AC72 yacht in SF
Oracle launched its new, massive AC72 boat in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon. The yacht will be used in this year’s America’s Cup Finals which will be held in September.
View ArticleHow a car mechanic helped Larry Ellison win the America’s Cup
If Larry Ellison hadn’t formed a friendship with a radiator repair shop owner, the America’s Cup probably wouldn’t be coming to San Francisco. It was around 2 in the morning when I got an e-mail from...
View ArticleGreatest person ever? Ellison, Jobs had starkly different choices
Julian Guthrie on “The Billionaire And The Mechanic,” Part 2 from San Francisco Chronicle on Vimeo. “I’m talking about greatness, about taking a lever to the world and moving it,” Larry Ellison said,...
View ArticleBook excerpt: Larry Ellison meets the repairman who helped bring the Cup to SF
The Golden Gate Yacht Club is at the end of Yacht Road, about 120 yards from the better known and tonier St. Francis. I learned of the Golden Gate’s existence in early 2002, when I first heard that...
View ArticleBook excerpt: Larry Ellison’s tumultuous relationship with Swiss billionaire
It’s fascinating for me to re-read this excerpt in Sunday’s paper, as there is so much that happened in the years that follow – drama and intrigue that no one could have imagined. In this scene, we see...
View ArticleOracle tests two boats on the foggy Bay (Photos)
More on the America’s Cup: While Oracle Racing was testing two of its boats on the Bay yesterday, the New Zealand team was preparing to protest America’s Cup charges.
View ArticleThe better duel might be Oracle vs. Oracle
Directly before or directly after each Louis Vuitton Cup challenger race, another duel will take place that may be more entertaining than the official race itself. It will match the two Oracle Team USA...
View ArticleOracle’s Slingsby has back strain, hopes for quick return
Tom Slingsby, the Australian strategist on Oracle Team USA’s main boat, is nursing a lower back strain, which he sustained in training a week ago, a team spokesperson said. He was back in training...
View ArticleOracle Team USA forfeits both ACWS season titles
Oracle Team USA has forfeited its overall championships in the two seasons of the America’s Cup World Series, a warm-up series for the America’s Cup, as a result of technical rules violations. Three...
View ArticleOracle Team USA could face more sanctions; ETNZ’s Dalton accuses team of...
Oracle Team USA, the defender in the America’s Cup, could be in serious trouble. Having already admitted rules violations during the America’s Cup World Series, a warm-up to this year’s regatta, the...
View ArticleEllison defends 72s as the right choice for Cup, says ‘structural failure’...
Larry Ellison defended the choice of 72-foot catamarans for this year’s America’s Cup in a rare media appearance Wednesday morning. He also said the Artemis Racing capsize that caused the death of crew...
View ArticleCoutts fires back at critics, insists Oracle management didn’t know about...
Russell Coutts, chief executive of the embattled America’s Cup defender Oracle Team USA, lashed back at the team’s critics Thursday. “It’s a team with 130 people, and a few people have broken a rule –...
View ArticleMeasurement committee clears Coutts’ boat of weights violations but creates...
Taking an abrupt jibe from its previous position, the America’s Cup measurement committee has absolved one of the three Oracle Team USA boats in a cheating scandal that has taken front stage in the...
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