Let me guess here...
 

Some sort of fancy salebote navigational excercise?:confused:

It was the Australian boat that broke up in the racing leading up to the cup in 1999. i was at the Americas Cup final in New Zealand in Feb 2000 and The New Zealanders won the cup 5 races to none against the Italians. I just happen to be a kiwi. The next Americas cup race is Feb 2003 in Auckland New Zealand. The trials start soon later this year.
Mark

Be interesting how it goes for them after their skipper got killed in that Pirate boarding!!!!:mad: :mad:

Hey Audiofn,
I never thought that anyone actually took notice of the tiny country that took away the cup. The day Peter Blake died was a sad day. It would be like a famous nascar driver being Killed. Blake was actually the manager but the skipper has been bought by one of the other teams. The number two skipper took over and he was at the helm the last race in New Zealand so he has some experience. I,ll find some links to the cup and post them for you.
Mark Hunter.