
At Oracle headquarters on the San Francisco Peninsula, the old IACC USA 71 has been occupying the Oracle Pond in front of Larry Ellison's yard for some time. The pond being only 3 feet deep, the keel was removed, and a trench dug to allow the hull to be set in and "float" when it was 1st installed. To keep boat upright, some 15,000 lbs
of pea gravel had been pumped into the hull and guy wires to keep the rig upright.

The years have not been kind, and the old gals hull were getting water logged and soft, so the process of getting her removed a couple weeks back was begun. The meant taking all the gravel out, bucket by bucket, and then craningthe boat and rig out. One slight problem, when the gravel was removed, the supporting guys were overloaded, and sometime early last week during the night, the rig cam crashing down, in to the pond. Well that takes care of that issue!


The pond is now empty, and void of any water, and rumor is that Dogzilla will be put in her place soon. It's assumed they are currently prepping the pond to receive the Big Dog, the method of delivery is purported to be air mail...keep you eyesto the sky and if you see a heli crane with a massive trimaran off 101 in the near future, you'll know whats up!
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