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.

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...

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...

Outright victory went to Sayonara, owned and skippered by Larry Ellison, with Lachlan Murdoch amongst the crew. [7] The 35-foot (10.7 m) AFR Midnight Rambler, skippered by Ed Psaltis, won on handicap. Never before had a boat of its size reached the entry to Bass Strait in less than a …

Dec 29, 1998 · Ellison, CEO of Redwood City-based Oracle Corp., escaped heavy winds and seas that sank or crippled 59 of the 115 boats entered in the race - the worst tragedy in the contest's 54-year history.

Dec 29, 1998 · Larry Ellison's yacht Sayonara has won the Sydney to Hobart yacht race after storms which cost six other sailors their lives. And Ellison told reporters that the race, which Sayonara won for the second time, was life-threatening and dangerous, with his only goal to get him and his crew back in one piece.

Sep 5, 2013 · In 1999, Ellison learned a lesson of survival during the infamous Sydney-Hobart race, where a hurricane ravaged 155 boats and killed six sailors. Sayonara limped into the harbor in first place ...

To meet this challenge, SAYONARA has a hull design a little narrower than might be expected for round-the-buoys sailing and is long by ILC MAXI standards to suit the heavy air San Francisco conditions and the moderate air reaching and

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...