On Jun 24, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Russell McMahon wrote:

> For the last 20 years until today racing for the America's Cup has
> been a very one sided affair. A band of challengers compete for the
> right to take on the incumbent and then the eventual Cup Winner
> thrashes the other yacht to death 5:0. The only exception in 20 years
> was a single penultimate win by the Italians a few iterations back. ie
> 4-0, 4-1, 5-1. 4-1 is the best any underdog has managed in 20 years.

Wikipedia doesn't show it as quite that dramatic, but okay... there's  
a few close years and a lot of years of 5-0.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Cup

1983 was tight, and I remember watching those races, when the Aussies  
and the K-III beat the Liberty.

> With the score now 1-1 it now appears the two teams and yachts are
> very very closely matched and some nail biting racing now looks likely
> in the coming days.

It's nice when the boats match and the skill of the skippers and crew  
comes into play.

The amazing thing to me is with so many billionaires involved in  
funding these yachts, how they all end up performing so radically  
different.

At least it's not NASCAR.  :-)

--
Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com



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