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...America's Cup was still there on Monday morning, bolted to a table at the New York Yacht Club, which has been its home for 132 years. Its tenure had become frighteningly fragile, however. For the past fortnight a superboat and a bunch of hungry sailors from Down Under have shown that the U.S. can no longer successfully defend the knobbly silver ewer merely by putting a boat in the water. At week's end the best-of-seven series was tied 3-3 between the red-hulled American defender Liberty and Australia II. In the process...
...merely a statistic. What was on display in Newport was nobility. The Australians showed technological brilliance, consummate sailing skill, luck, intuition, nerve, courage, stamina and fanatic determination to win. It also took millions of dollars on both sides, since that is the price of admission in 12-meter yacht racing. But no amount of money could have bought what Aussie guts and gall have won to date...
John Bertrand, 36, Bond's skipper, proved in the trials that he is among the world's best at handling a 12-meter yacht. Relaxed and modest, he was quick to admit error. He also had the fervent loyalty of his crew. By contrast with previous years, when the Aussie sailors downed Foster's Lager in Newport's pubs till the wee hours, Bertrand's men trained like commandos for the marine assault. Off Newport, long considered mare nostrum by the American defenders, Bertrand developed a feel for wind and water conditions unmatched by many...
Australia II's heist of the ex-America's Cup raises all sorts of questions about the future of the World Series of sailing. First, what will the races be called three years from now in Perth? The Cup was not named for this country but for the yacht which beat a fleet of British boats in the first series way back in 1856. Calling it Australia II's Cup for the next few years would be a fitting barb to leave in the NYYC's flesh...
...limitless possibilities for how the races will be run. Ever since first claiming the Cup, the races have been run solely on the whims of the NYYC, which made up the rules as it went along. The actual races were officiated by an international race committee, but the yacht club had free reign in choosing where and when to hold them and in what kind of boats...