Coutts pushes his AC45 to a near capsize...recovers quickly! - San Francisco

Source: www.cupInfo.com

Today the two were joined in a spectacular incident that put one of ORACLE Racing’s crews within a gnat’s whisker of a chilly swim. 

“It was a typical San Francisco day,” said ORACLE Racing CEO Russell Coutts, the four-time America’s Cup champion. “We came close to capsizing a couple of times. You hit the wrong wave or get a puff, you have to react quickly. It’s gonna be a handful.”

Coutts and crew Simon Daubney, Murray Jones, Matthew Mason and Simeon Tienpont buried both bows up to the front cross beam and pirouetted onto the leeward hull before the windward hull came crashing down. The crew was 12 seconds from making one long night for the shore crew.

“Mate, it was unreal,” said team skipper James Spithill, who had a front row seat as the action happened just to leeward. “Our teammates next door put it in hard and it looked awesome. It was a picture perfect day. This is exactly why we came here, it was just awesome.”