Cruising takes off: how Ben Ainslie is preparing for the race of his life at the America's Cup
On August 6, 2011, mariner Charles Benedict Ainslie enjoyed a reprieve from preparing for the Olympics to stare at the TV. The main race of the new period of the America's Cup World Series justified his consideration. Ainslie had made his notoriety for being one of the world's best mariners in dinghy cruising. He had been fixated on the America's Cup since the age of 12, when he initially observed the 12-meter British yacht that was contending in the America's Cup harbored in the port of Falmouth, close to his home in Cornwall. Be that as it may, the trophy that Ainslie had turned out to be spellbound by had changed practically to the point of being unrecognizable. The guidelines enabled the past champ to direct the organization for the following rivalry. Larry Ellison, CEO of the Oracle Corporation, the world's fifth wealthiest man and proprietor of the America's Cup-winning group at the time, Oracle Team USA, dumped the conventional great looking yachts fo...