Yachting: Oracle breezing into City of Sails

America’s Cup syndicate BMW Oracle Racing are on their way to Auckland, having wound up their sailing programme in Valencia.

The syndicate, headed by US computer billionaire Larry Ellison, will train in Auckland from mid-November until around February. The syndicate have so far shipped one boat here (2003- generation boat) USA71. It is not known whether they intend to fly or ship any of their new boats to New Zealand.