From the San Francisco Chronicle: The towering Oracle catamaran designed to "fly on water" in its
defense of the America's Cup drifted out to sea Tuesday after a
spectacular flip into San Francisco Bay during a training run.
Onlookers
watched in amazement as the $8 million AC72 racing craft dug its bow
into the water, heaved up and slammed sideways into the bay shortly
after 3 p.m. just off the shoreline near the St. Francis Yacht Club.
The
boat quickly drifted to the Marin County side of the bay, prompting
crews to try to tow it back to San Francisco. But a mean current caught
it and propelled it under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific Ocean.
"It was amazing - we watched it tip right over, and it looked like the top of the wing came right off," said Ethan Pawson,
a UC Berkeley junior who was at the yacht club for a campus regatta
ceremony. "Then the big ebb tide just took it right out under the bridge
and it was obvious there was nothing they could do."
U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Joshua Dykman said no one was hurt in the incident and that the 11-member crew did not require outside rescue assistance. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/America-s-Cup-boat-flips-in-SF-Bay-3954137.php
You are in charge of a $8 million America's Cup yacht and you lose total control of it. That does not look on the old resume when you start looking for work tomorrow.
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