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    AMERICA’S CUP TEAMS

    Apr 17, 2017 5 minutes

    For complete AC35 coverage, visit sailmagazine.com/racing/americas-cup

    ORACLE TEAM USA

    It would be hard to overestimate the strengths of the Defender, Oracle Team USA. A team comprised of some of the best sailing talent in the world, including such veterans as tactician Tom Slingsby and wing-trimmer Kyle Langford—both critical elements in the team’s 2013 win? Check. Oodles of design experience with full-foiling catamarans? Check. An essentially limitless budget thanks to the financial backing of owner Larry Ellison, one of the richest men on the planet? Check. An America’s Cup protocol that makes it possible to compete during much of the qualifier series, thereby allowing it to further hone its skills and systems? Check. Then there is what is perhaps the team’s single greatest strength, its Australian-born skipper, Jimmy Spithill. Lest we forget, this is the same guy who publically stated his team could still

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