BMW have a silent auction running at the moment for pieces of sails used on their boats. Beautifully mounted and framed, they would look great on any wall and are sure to be highly collectible.

Clicking the picture above will take you to their site and you could bid to own a bit of Sailing history.

And where does the money go?

Sail design is where art meets craft. Teams invest endless time and effort in refining the high-tech sails that power a racing yacht. In a tribute to the unique quality of these technical masterpieces, at the 32nd America's Cup, 32 sections of an original, race-proven mainsail from BMW ORACLE Racing yacht USA 87 have been hand-selected and frame mounted. The outcome is a limited series of exclusive canvases - 3 in a large format, 29 in a smaller format. These priceless mementos of the Louis Vuitton and America's Cup can now be acquired at auction.

Every canvas bears a plate signed by a member of the BMW ORACLE Racing afterguard and an indication of the original position of the material on the mainsail. You are cordially invited too place a bid for any of the "32 Originals".

All proceeds go to charity.

The proceeds from the winning bids will be collected and transferred to Qué Chido e.V., a registered charity, which has won the BMW Group Award for Interculural Learning. Qué Chido aims to improve the lives of poverty-stricken children in Latin America

For further details, please visit www.que-chido.de by clicking the picture of their site to the left.