Sailing Magazine
by Richard Crockett
Remember the America’s Cup days when shenanigans were the order of the day and sportsmanship short on supply? Well there was plenty of that in this series, despite this report being in the early days of the 1987 cup series.
One of the biggest protagonists was Dennis Conner, who had lost the America’s Cup in 1983, and was doing his best to win it back. After this race he protested the legality of the Kiwi boat!
This is how this report opened: “America’s Cup hopeful New Zealand handed a crushing defeat to ‘America II’ and immediately sailed into a storm over its fibreglass construction.
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE: 1986 10 10 – 000022 – S&A – OCR_Redacted
