Worst feeling, being on the upwind still while boats are passing you on their downwind leg
by Christophe Favreau
“The best sailboat ever made.” -Phil Edwards
Fact #9 – While ORACLE TEAM USA will be defending the title here in the USA, the America’s Cup trophy is not named after the United States but after the first winning boat ‘America’ who beat out 15 rivals in 1851 by 8 minutes. Portrait Credit: Currier and Ives. (12 Days of ORACLE TEAM USA Facts)
Six Meters. From Nautical Quarterly, an old, discontinued, ridiculously high end hardcover magazine that was surprisingly not very successful.
Flashback to summer when America’s Cup was in Newport and i turned into a lobster…
