Sailing Magazine
BACK. Sir Ben Ainslie; Dean Barker; Franck Cammas;
FRONT. Jimmy Spithall and Ian Percy.
By Richard Crockett
The 2017 America’s Cup report I have chosen to share today is pretty darn pertinent with the finals of the 37th cup due to start later this week. Plus, it shows just how far the “yachts” (can we really call them that?) and technology have progressed in just 7 years.
Since the 34th America’s Cup in 2013 there has been renewed effort from several teams to wrest “The Cup” away from the Americans who have always had a stranglehold on it.
Six teams fought it out on Bermuda’s Great Sound for the ultimate prize in sailing, and, arguably, the hardest trophy to win in sport.
The America’s Cup is the competition for the oldest trophy in international sport and dates back to 1851. Over that time, teams representing just four nations, the United States of America; Australia; New Zealand and Switzerland, have won the trophy in over 160-years of competition.
It is one of the greatest challenges in all of sport.
READ ABOUT THE 2017 CHALLENGE HERE: Pages from 2017 06 – SAILING Magazine – OCR
