Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
Take yourself back 30 years to the America’s Cup and compare it to today’s offering. Which format do you prefer?
So going back all that time makes me ask the question as to what “Big Bad Dennis Conner” would think of today’s Cup format?
Dennis was a formidable competitor becoming the darling of USA sailors and Cup followers having won the cup, to being just “Big Bad Dennis” after he became the first man to lose it!
Today’s newspaper feature opens as follows: “Like it or not, Big Bad Dennis Conner is back in the America’s Cup finals. The skipper who once angered an entire nation, and who is simultaneously praised and panned even in his hometown, has pulled off another miracle comeback and is attempting to win the America’s Cup for the fifth time in 21 years.”
READ MORE HERE: 1995 05 07 – sunday tribune – S&A – 325 – OCR_Redacted
