The Comeback: How Larry Ellison?s Team Won the America?s Cup - Softcover

Knecht, G. Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532994206 ISBN 13: 9781532994203

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Larry's Ellison's America's Cup team was down 1-8. New Zealand needed just one more win. Oracle ultimately beat back the odds in what's been called the greatest comeback in sport. But was it? G. Bruce Knecht set out to investigate how Oracle turned things around and, most particularly, the source of extra horsepower that seemed to come from nowhere during the final races. What he discovered was that the team was using a sailing technique that was prohibited under the rules. The Comeback is a pulse-pounding account of Oracle's desperate stop-at-nothing campaign.

G. Bruce Knecht, a former staff reporter and foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, is the author of three books, including The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race. Larry Ellison was a major character in that book as well and it explains how his experience in the race led to his pursuit of the America's Cup. A sailor himself, Knecht raced across the Atlantic in 2005 on the yacht that broke the 100-year-old transatlantic race record.

Cover design by Charles Rue Woods.

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About the Author

G. BRUCE KNECHT, a former staff reporter and foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, is the author of three other books, including The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race. A sailor himself, Knecht raced across the Atlantic in 2005 on a yacht that broke the 100-year-old transatlantic race record.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532994206
• ISBN 13: 9781532994203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148