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I saw this yacht at the western Australian maritime museum in Fremantle Australia

If you can find it in a library somewhere - Ben Lexcen : the man, the keel, and the cup (book)

predates cricket are you sure mate love the uk

Australia has lost interest in the Americas Cup. It was a contest between a nation's sailors and boat design funded by yachting obsessed multi millionares. Now it's like F1 auto racing on water where the boats and crews represent a country in name only. NZ started this trend by attempting to be more litigious than the Americans!!!

As a young kid i woke up early in Australia to watch the deciding race on the black and white tv my parent's gifted me. Was not allowed to watch it after bed time or i would lose the tv. Was glad i risked it.😛

I must have aged 10yrs during that last race. Like most of Australia we stayed up all night to watch that final thrilling tacking duel, hoping against hope that the lightly built Australia 2, with it's inverted "Spitfire-wings" keel could somehow stay together and reach the finish line in front. The Gods must have been smiling on us that day, especially since they took A2 out for a sail the next day after winning The Cup and the mast snapped on the first tack. That would have been the end of us but somehow it stayed together during race 7 until victory was ours. It remains, to this day, our country's finest sporting achievement.

Kiwi's literally got outplayed at the game they started. Then threw a huge temper tantrum about it. Nothing about the 1988 AC was on the level. Worst case of dick measuring in generations.

Dumb move by NZ, they were going back in time to the era of the large J class boats and retarding instead of advancing sailboat design. A bitter pill to swallow but the NZ team was outmanoeuvred by team USA off the water. Can you imagine a half dozen or more challengers having to build those large boats?

It's pretty simple really, the Seppo's could no longer cheat...

Had Fay spent the lawyers budget on building a new boat (a bigger cat) he would have been safe from unfairness and saved a good amount of dough in the process. Rich idiot got played by a smarter rich idiot. Isn't that the spirit of the America's cup? Fast Forward 2010😆

All those Years , the Americans won the Cup , by either way of cheating , etc, I am sure ! When Australia won the Cup in 1983 the Americans did NOT like it and they kept changing the rules in the Years to come to ALWAYS benefit themselves ! They are very sore losers when it comes to that !

Do Aussies captain every defender

the americas cup took place every 4 years until the kiwis got involved, until then the boats were always evenly matched due to a hull formula having to be adhered to . after the 12mtr class i lost interest .

Just deserts for the kiwis to throw a challenge out with going through the process of challenging first. Anyway, once Australia won it in 83 the mystic and aurora was over,the Kiwis just buried it

I think it was Australia II, Hawthorn in the VFL GF and Pat Cash at Wimbledon. 🇦🇺👍🍺

If you live by the sword you die by the sword. NZ used a loophole to challenge in a huge boat and a short time frame in the hope that USA could not build a similar boat in enough time to learn how to be competitive. Instead USA also used a loophole to defend in a catamaran. Then Kiwis complained because they had been beaten at their own game - exploiting loopholes !

I never realised Warren called it at 4-3. Always great to beat the Yanks, especially when they start using their “tactics” as usual😂

wish they still competed in these monohulls

As a proud American and sailor, truly, of all the countries Americans typically love, Canada, England, Mexico, France, etc etc, Australia was the least stinging to lose the Cup to. It still stings, but bygummit Australia! Like losing a footrace to a brother. The Cup has always been a blend of boat and skill. Aussies had the skill and the boat and the win was well deserved.

There was a camera set up on a hotel next to the USA compound in San Diego, just happened to be watching when they brought out the wing sail, loaded it sideways on the boat, then raised it on the water, then proceeded to sailing up and down SD Bay, dwarfing everything in their path for the next hour. It was an epic display of power and control. I knew right then it was all over for Alinghi

Building a new fast mega yacht in secret for a year or so and then showing up and demanding a race is hardly sporting. Faye got what he deserved when the SDYC responded in kind.

That winning boat is on display in the WA Maritime Museum in Perth. What strikes you when you look at it up close is how rough it looked, hand made and crudely finished in places like a prototype. But wow, she was fast. The people who built it were into speed over looks.

Such a tragedy Bondy’s outrageous financial dishonesty destroyed the legacy of his America’s Cup success.

It predates cricket? Yes, as an international sporting event.

Dick Smith! That's who he looks like.

18:15 The guy goes to join in on the high fives, but he was too slow 😟

8:47 That's a proper Aussie interview.

21C speeds are WAY faster a few years later

Whole thing was a joke. America was never going to match race. Conner was sn arse and will always be remembered as that.

Shouldn't it be .. How Australia won the America's Cup.

They both killed the Sport the way it was !!! Nothing wrong with today's boats....but its NOT YATCHING NOW !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!!

In BAESBALL an Opposing team can't make a better baseball to hit with compared to the others !!! So why did they let them CHANGE THE WHOLE SPORT !!! !!! !!!

This all started with Australia having a winged Keil and then America had to top that !!!

Bring back the monohulls...Foiling multihulls should be developed and raced, just not in the America's Cup...

If you can't win. CHEAT! And then when someone got one over your cheating. You'll yell CHEATING even louder.😂😢

This video would benefit from upscaling.

That kiwis ego ruined the cup. Everyone 'cheated', but at least they were similar boats. Building a plastic boat created an unfair advantage. Computer installation, was an unfair advantage. Kiwis were crying because they were still in the monohull box.

In the first race the Americans have cheated to win the Admirals Cup, it's time to give the right name back. ADMIRALS CUP !!

I was steering a yacht last year in a race and it had a winged keel. They are different and you do have to adjust your technique. 🐟

No, Dennis Connors was as usual an arrogant price and screwed up.

If your definition of largest AC yacht includes displacement then surely Ranger (1937) takes the prize at 166 tons.

Largest America's Cup Boats ever...you should then include KZ1 "New Zealand" from the '88 DOG match (120 ft LOA / LWL: 90 ft /Beam: 26.5 ft / Draught: 21 ft / Displacement: 39 tons / Upwind sail area 6,750 sq ft / Downwind sail area 17,000 sq ft.) czcams.com/video/eGIO0ddDKF0/video.html

As others have said, this was an extremely one-sided account of a situation in which nobody covered themselves in glory. Fay used a legalistic, technical reading of the Deed of Gift to obliterate long-standing protocols of sporting behavior and essentially dictate the schedule and ground rules of the race from the Challenger position on short notice. His goal was an ambush, plain and simple. He won that initial legal battle because his read of the Deed of Gift was technically correct, even if unsporting. But then when Connors and the San Diego crew effectively said "Well fine, if we're going to be legalistic and technical about interpreting the Deed at the expense of precedent and the sporting spirit of the agreement, we're going to all the way to the logical extreme of that approach." The catamaran was unsporting. It was unfair. And Connors behaved like a prick. But none of it happens if not for Faye's effort to ambush the Cup to press his perceived advantage. In the end, everyone really lost, including the America's Cup as a whole. Everyone looked childish and foolish, and the event was permanently diminished after all the ridiculous bickering and litigation.

Too say a Bruce Farr design not fast . Is laughable Bruce Farr one of the greatest designers ever. And that typical sportsmanship of Dennis

America was losing In one cup race, changed the rules in the middle of a race. I'm an American sailor. I never like whinny Denise

I don't know why I watched this again...the most egregious case of whinging by a losing team (that tried to cheat to start with) ever. The Kiwi's said "no rules" then brought a knife to gun fight.

This is when the New Zealand stuff up the America's cup .

Love Kiwis, fruit and people, but they took a beautiful tradition and mucked it up. Lack of class, imo

This is the whitest thing I have ever seen

What a complete joke the Americas Cup has been turned into by the Yanks and Kiwis !!