Crazy Boats of America’s Cup

Tuesday, 09 February 2010 | by Pat's Picks

The Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics are the only sporting events going on this February. The New York Times has a great story about the crazy boats they’ve built to try to win the America’s Cup, which was scheduled to begin today. One of the stranger innovations is something called a wing sail, which the Times describes as looking like “someone wrenched a wing off a large jetliner and perched it, tip up, atop a trailer hitch on the boat?s middle hull.” Because of inconsistent winds, the start date has been pushed to Wednesday.

Scroll down for a video of Oracle’s wing sail being installed for the America’s Cup a few months back:

SOURCE: New York Times