I think its clear now that its Oracle that has found the extra gear upwind. When they get up on foils they are a good 2 to 3 knots faster than ETNZ in the same patch of water.

I too wish that Oracle has figured this out sooner. The in-house two boat testing obviously wasn't competitive enough and it took a desperate motivation to squeeze the performance out of the boat.

Those tacks today were nearly all flawless. I mean it was like they did a wheelie then settled down on the new tack on the new leward hull already drawing air in the wing... incredible.