The brand new £7 million America's Cup boat Oracle 17 will need rebuilding or replacing after it spectacularly capsized just eight days into trials, wrecking the revolutionary new wingsail.
Skipper James Spithill and tactician Tom Slingsby and the Oracle 17 crew were putting the American AC72 through its paces on San Francisco Bay in testing wind against tide conditions when the bows nose-dived and the boat pitch-poled soon after they bore away.
All the crew either fell or jumped into the water though remarkably, no injuries were reported even though the 6 ton vessel with two giant 72 foot hulls came crashing down around them.
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