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Steve Milby
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Initially Posted - 01/25/2021 :  17:01:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I just found a series of videos on this subject, made by different prominent sailing personalities. Here's a link to one by Peter Montgomery that is really thrilling. https://youtu.be/26NE0saKea0
Steve Milby J/24 "Captiva Wind"
previously C&C 35, Cal 25, C25 TR/FK, C22
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/25/2021 :  19:46:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My favorite memory of the AC is from 2000. Being in the America Cup Village in Auckland for the last race with 70000 screaming Kiwis! Every time NZ made a mark rounding in the lead, you couldn't hear the commentary on the TV for at least a minute (and Peter Montgomery was VERY loud).
Derek Crawford
Chief Measurer C25-250 2008
Previous owner of "This Side UP"
1981 C-25 TR/FK #2262 Used to have an '89 C22 #9483, "Downsized"
San Antonio, Texas
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 01/26/2021 :  21:06:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I recorded (on VHS) what became my favorite... 1987, Freemantle, Australia. The set-up: Australia had been the first to ever take the cup from America, with their secret wing keel 12-meter. Then, in Freemantle, Australia, it was Dennis Conner (who had lost it)... In the final race in a gale (referred to in Freemantle as "The Doctor"), Stars & Stripes completed the sweep after blowing out her jib just before the final leg. I recall the race starting around 5AM EST, and the real-time on-board video back then was astounding! A humiliating series for the Aussies.

Amusing moment: The next year, using an unsportsmanlike interpretation of the Deed, NZ presented a surprise challenge, with a plan to bring a secret 90' winged-hull boat to San Diego. After some court battles over the surprise, and with no opportunity for the US to develop a similar boat (NZ's strategy), Conner returned the ambush with a wing-sail catamaran. The two ~40 mile races (best of three) were won by the catamaran by about 20 minutes each--a total farce--followed by another unsuccessful court battle with the Kiwis arguing "No fairsies!" That was (hopefully) the end of "ambush" challenges. It also was the end of the 12-meter Americas Cup, and probably to having a dozen entrants.
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
Edited by - Stinkpotter on 01/26/2021 22:13:43
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/27/2021 :  09:04:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That NZ boat is mounted outside the Auckland airport - and it's still as ugly as ever.
Derek Crawford
Chief Measurer C25-250 2008
Previous owner of "This Side UP"
1981 C-25 TR/FK #2262 Used to have an '89 C22 #9483, "Downsized"
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