Having been holed up in Holland Michigan since the 2000 Chicago Mackinac Race, Sayonara, Larry Ellison’s 80’ Maxi is headed home. Her destination, Pier 80 in San Francisco which is currently HQ for Oracle Racing and ground zero for all things Americas Cup on SF Bay until the construction of the new piers on the City Front are complete.

Oct 4, 2007 · When he died, the 32-knot vessel, originally named Eco, was snapped up by Larry Ellison to act as a fast mothership for his racing maxi Sayonara and the Oracle America’s Cup campaign in New Zealand.

When 115 sailboats left Sydney Harbour on Saturday, December 26, for the 54th Sydney–Hobart yacht race, the sun was shining and software tycoon Larry Ellison’s 80-foot Sayonara was favored to...

Mar 14, 2003 · As Larry Ellison has often told it, Plattner mooned his business and sporting rival as Ellison, on board his maxi Sayonara, was sailing by. Plattner has vehemently denied this. Here is his...

Oct 29, 2014 · In the 1990s, he bought a 78-foot racing sailboat he named Sayonara and started competing at a high level. Ellison's skills as a yachtsman and team leader shined, winning him five Maxi World...

With the Offshore Racing Council's formation of the IMS based ILC MAXI level rating class and the Transpac Yacht Club's announcement that it would use the ILC Maxi as the big boat limit for the 1995 Transpac Race, it was logical that California owner Larry Ellison and his representative David Thomson would commission the design for SAYONARA to ...

May 8, 2000 · Six sailors from other boats died. While the worst injuries sustained on his 78-foot Sayonara were broken bones, Ellison was shaken by the experience.

Dec 25, 2008 · Larry Ellison, the American billionaire who took line honors in that 1998 race in his maxi Sayonara, gleaned enough amid the 80-knot winds and 60-foot waves to conclude that he never wanted...

Jul 20, 1998 · At 4:22 p.m. Sunday, Larry Ellison in his 80-foot maxi-boat Sayonara crossed the finish line. Ellison, of the computer software giant Oracle, was just 2 minutes 4 seconds shy of the...

Dec 6, 2016 · His decision to pursue the America’s Cup came in late spring of 2000, after he and the crew of his Farr-designed 80-footer, Sayonara, had just won Antigua Sailing Week and claimed their fourth maxi-class world championship. “Team Sayonara hadn’t lost a buoy regatta since it was launched in 1995,” Larry told me.