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Photo: © Ivor Wilkins/ORACLE TEAM USA |
The rules for the 2013 America’s Cup require the hulls to be built in a team’s home country but other large structures, such as the wing and cross beams, can be constructed elsewhere.
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Photo: © Ivor Wilkins/ORACLE TEAM USA |
The company has a worldwide reputation for innovative processes to create lightweight, high strength, reliable and accurate composite structures.
“The wing will look big for the boat because the AC72 class rule intends these boats to have a lot of power,” added Spithill. “There is no doubt the AC72s will be awesome machines, intimidating even.”
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Photo: © Ivor Wilkins/ORACLE TEAM USA |
“The wing construction is the result of 25,000 man hours work by CBC’s skilled workforce and was constructed over a period of six months,” said Smyth.
The wing will be trucked to Auckland and then shipped by sea to San Francisco, ready for final assembly with the hulls built on-site at ORACLE TEAM USA’s base in Pier 80.
America’s Cup rules permit teams to launch their AC72s from July 1 onwards.
Tim Jeffrey
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