BMW and Oracle have teamed together to issue a challenge to the champion Swiss team in the upcoming America's Cup, and what a boat they have. The tri-hulled BOR90 (90 feet long and 90 feet wide at the water line... the size of a baseball diamond) is a complete rewrite of yacht design. It's 160-foot-tall mast is gyroscopically controlled so that it always stays upright no matter what angle the boat below is at; the razor thin hulls offer so little resistance that the boat regularly moves thrice as fast as the wind that is moving it, and has approached 60 miles per hour. But really, in my opinion, it's just one of the most beautiful boats ever.
By the way, the court case mentioned in this ABC video was settled back in April of this year... in favor of BMW Oracle. Game on.
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