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RATING RULES: Evolving the VPP

March 8th, 2013

WHAT’S NEW FOR THE ORR RULE IN 2013 The Offshore Racing Rule (ORR) was first used in the 2006 race season, and is now the prominent rule for distance racing throughout North America. Events such as the Newport Beach to Cabo San Lucas Race, Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac, and the Marion to Bermuda


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America’s Cup: Wings, foils, drag

March 8th, 2013

FOIL FOCUSED Behind the scenes at Oracle Team USA, Joseph Ozanne crunches numbers using mind-numbing equations all in the name of a faster time around the racecourse for his team’s AC72. Ozanne is the team’s wing design leader and is also responsible for the performance prediction functions. Much of his work in the current campaign


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OCEAN RACING: Back in the day

March 8th, 2013

“IT WAS MAGIC. I DON’T KNOW WHY” By Kimball Livingston, Blue Planet Times – Once upon a time ocean racing was going gangbusters. Every new boat seemed important, and the new boats kept on coming. In the 1970s, the racing yacht Imp was born in a sketch on a napkin at the bar at The



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