90 x 90 Race Multi

Oracle tri

Scuttlebut Europe

Anacortes, Washington, USA: BMW ORACLE Racing said today it was very pleased to confirm that after nine months of intense activity its team in Anacortes is in the final stages of preparing its new 90-foot multihull yacht for sailing.

The carbon fiber trimaran emerged from under wraps at its purpose-built construction shed here for the first time today. The trimaran is the third yacht constructed for the team in this waterfront community 100 miles north of Seattle/

The yacht is a key element of the team's preparation for the next America's Cup, representing San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC), on which a ruling is expected from the New York State Court of Appeals in the next six months.

The team partnered with Van Peteghem / Lauriot Prevost (VPLP) of France and one of the most successful skippers in multihull racing, Franck Cammas, to design the innovative trimaran.

Led by Mark Turner and Tim Smyth, the BMW ORACLE Racing construction team has worked in a purpose-built composite yacht construction facility housed in a 100-foot x 200-foot, three-story shed. Janicki Industries in nearby Sedro- Woolley provided high-tech precision tooling.

BMW has been a key partner in developing the boat. BMW aeronautical engineers, Christoph Erbelding and Thomas Hahn, have stayed with the design team since the 32nd campaign providing unique expertise in finite element analysis, which is a key tool for fulfilling EfficientDynamics requirements in the automotive industry.

Erbelding works with the rig team in Valencia and Rhode Island, while Hahn is based with the hull structures team at Anacortes; both are integral team members in ensuring the boat is as stiff and light as possible while delivering maximum performance.

The team continues the final fit-out of the boat as it prepares for some preliminary sea trials here next month. -- Jane Eagleson

Anacortes, Washington, USA: BMW ORACLE Racing said today it was very pleased to confirm that after nine months of intense activity its team in Anacortes is in the final stages of preparing its new 90-foot multihull yacht for sailing.

The carbon fiber trimaran emerged from under wraps at its purpose-built construction shed here for the first time today. The trimaran is the third yacht constructed for the team in this waterfront community 100 miles north of Seattle/

The yacht is a key element of the team's preparation for the next America's Cup, representing San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC), on which a ruling is expected from the New York State Court of Appeals in the next six months.

The team partnered with Van Peteghem / Lauriot Prevost (VPLP) of France and one of the most successful skippers in multihull racing, Franck Cammas, to design the innovative trimaran.

Led by Mark Turner and Tim Smyth, the BMW ORACLE Racing construction team has worked in a purpose-built composite yacht construction facility housed in a 100-foot x 200-foot, three-story shed. Janicki Industries in nearby Sedro- Woolley provided high-tech precision tooling.

BMW has been a key partner in developing the boat. BMW aeronautical engineers, Christoph Erbelding and Thomas Hahn, have stayed with the design team since the 32nd campaign providing unique expertise in finite element analysis, which is a key tool for fulfilling EfficientDynamics requirements in the automotive industry.

Erbelding works with the rig team in Valencia and Rhode Island, while Hahn is based with the hull structures team at Anacortes; both are integral team members in ensuring the boat is as stiff and light as possible while delivering maximum performance.

The team continues the final fit-out of the boat as it prepares for some preliminary sea trials here next month. -- Jane Eagleson

www.bmworacleracing.com

 

Very Scary ...

The BMWO Racing 90 is in the water. The rig is up and after static load testing, she's going sailing ... maybe this weekend. Mast is about 165 ft, Ama's are about 105 ft LOA, and Beam is 90 ft. LOA is 125 ft give or take. Displacement estimate is 24,000 lbs. Helm stations on each side, behind the rear beam.

 

Yes, Exciting isn't it?

Wonder if they have two helmsman as well. I guess so.
Spithill and Couts might do the job. Just a slight detail.. How do you sail a double twin rudder steering wheel. with rudder and trimtabs steering. Well.... that will be a challenge. I would refuse to do the job. When it flips over you destroy 100 millions of dollars in a second. Not to speak about the possible loss of human lifes when catapulted with 40 + knots through the forestay.

I am not a psychopath. It is way to dangerous! I had the same discussion on SA and I adviced them to let perform a HAZOP by Lloyds.

EB and LE decide but they might be held liable when things go wrong.

I will not be part of this thing as a spectator.And that is final.

Just switch back to the nice mono's. The design of Judel and Vrolijk on the new AC 70 is mighty fine. And the other 12 competing team are not forced to buy a suicide machine. http://www.styacht.com/

If I was EB I would not show up. Dare to be different:idea:

 

this yacht demands a race

 

That is not true

It's just my opinion but it's a suicide machine. Perhaps to be build with ejector seats like in jetfighters but I am quite sure even that isn't good enough.

My humble opinion:idea:

 

total carnage, over the line, the product of greed, can't wait to see it do 40knots

 

these same designers have a 140ft about to hit the tide

 

I will not take part in this discussion. Perhaps VOR 2008 is more interesting

 

Bring on the logs and Mastodon hides, Grog!

We're going retro in a big way.

Schakel... stop writing on the computer this instant! ;-)

 

Geeez

All this trouble, all this legal and political BS, to come to a stunning final form with the hulls... and then they glue-on one butt ugly pair of steering stations, as if it were done by Sanford and Son.

Was this the place in the design/build where they let the Sorceror's Apprentice in the shop one night to let him have one bit of input?

WTF?

 

Bravo Chris

 

He is already won the thing, now he's having a bit of fun. Go russell give em a taste of Kiwi.

 

Wild Speculations

...wild speculation from another forum

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:04 +1000, Paul Nudd wrote:
> Its the number of hulls that count, not how often each of them are in
> the water.
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It's the concavities in the undersurface that count (i.e. define the
number of hulls), if I remember the rules correctly? !

Larry fessing up with photos is one milestone but there's another to
come - US courts permitting. Ernesto has to name the time and *PLACE*.

If I was Ernesto, I'd look at what Larry has and what I have and I'd
choose a place to disadvantage him. Strong wind area if I think he's
overpowered relative to me etc ...

So if I was Larry, I'd'a thunk like Ernesto and covered myself in
camouflage paint. I presume that the mast, rigging and foils are all
made out of papier mache and the real ones will only be produced once
the venue is chosen. The only question in my mind is whether the hulls
and beams are real or fake? Perhaps the real boat *is* a cat? Or a
'development' of Rohan Veal's Moth?

Cheers, Dave

 

And it has lifting foils,right? See one in an earlier pix.

 

It has the normal ORMA style curved foils, yes.

No T foil on the vaka rudder, the bows of the ama's are about 6 feet forward of the vaka bow and the ama's extend aft of the vaka transom.

All foils lift when they have an effective AoA ... did you mean vertical lift?