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Where are they now? 6 famous America's Cup yachts

1851 schooner america’s sad demise.

In 1851, the schooner America , sailing for the New York Yacht Club, beat the Royal Yacht Squadron and laid claim to its 100 Guinea Cup. Thus the America’s Cup was born – what is now the oldest trophy in international sport – earning its name from that first winning yacht rather than the country, though the US did go on to hold the trophy for 100 years.

Where is America's Cup yacht  America now?

The famous America's cup yacht America changed hands – and names – a few times after the first historic race, and then wound up in the American Civil War as a Union ship. She stayed in the military as a training ship for the Navy until 1873, when she was sold to a former Civil War General for $5,000 (about $98,000 today). The general raced, maintained and refitted the boat, but after his death in 1893, she was passed down to his son who lacked interest in the schooner and allowed her to fall into disrepair. Despite being eventually donated back to the Navy, lack of maintenance left her seriously decayed. The nail was driven into the coffin when a major snowstorm caused the shed she was stored in to collapse in 1945, and America was scrapped and burned, bringing the history of one of the most famous sailing yachts of all times to a close.

America ’s legacy lives on to do this day, and there are replicas of the schooner you can sail on to relive the glory of this historic vessel. Climb aboard the 32 metre America 2.0 replica (pictured in the inset above) in Key West (November-April) and New York (May-October), or on a 42 metre replica out in San Diego .

1930 Shamrock V is still sailing

J Class yachts are synonymous with the America’s Cup as these slim, graceful beauties once represented the fleet racing for the Cup. The 36.42 metre Shamrock V , commissioned by Sir Thomas Lipton for his fifth and final bid, she was the first J Class yacht to compete for the Cup. The fact that she is the only J Class yacht to be built in wood makes it all the more remarkable that Shamrock V is still floating today.

Where is America's Cup yacht  Shamrock V now?

The Camper & Nicholsons -built J is in pretty perfect condition for a lady of her years. J Class yacht  Shamrock V is currently for sale and looking for a good home. The right owner could sail away on this piece of Cup history just in time as the  J Class yachts make a triumphant return to the America's Cup .

1987 movie star Stars & Stripes still racing

While the film Wind , one of the best boat movies , was inspired by Dennis Conner’s experience competing for the America’s Cup in 1983 on board Liberty , the yacht that was actually used in filming was the 12 Metre type sailing yacht Stars & Stripes 87 . She was called Geronimo in the film, but Stars & Stripes 87 was more than a screen legend. When Conner launched his own campaign, he wanted a culmination of all the Stars & Stripes yachts that came before her, and she was designed to be fast in heavy air. Stars & Stripes 87 wound up being the final 12 metre yacht to win the America’s Cup.

Where is the America's Cup yacht  Stars & Stripes 87 now?

Stars & Stripes 87 can be found in the Caribbean now, able to be sailed with the St Maarten 12 Metre Challenge , giving you a chance to take the helm (if you're lucky) of a real Cup winner.

1988 Stars & Stripes multihulls

Paving the way for the high-performance multihull America's Cup yachts that are redefining the competition is  Stars & Stripes – the catamaran. The first America's Cup multihull yacht, the US team's Stars & Stripes came to be by a cunning interpretation of the Deed of Gift, which only stipulated the challenging yachts be single masted and no more than 90 feet LWL. The result was anything but a true match race, with the much faster, wing-masted multihull Stars & Stripes winning the Cup in 1988.

Where are the America's Cup multihull yachts Stars & Stripes now?

Two versions of the multihull Stars & Stripes were built, a soft sail (S1) and a wing-masted yacht (H3). Stars & Stripes (S1) was acquired by American entrepreneur Steve Fossett and used to set speed records around the world before being sold in 2017 to Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages in Key Largo, where she is used for day charters and racing. The actual Cup player, Stars & Stripes (H3) was bought by Mark Reece in Naples, Florida and was used for sailing charter trips, but her current status is unconfirmed.

1994 Stars & Stripes once used as a training yacht by Oracle Team USA

America’s Cup yacht Stars & Stripes (sail number 34) is probably most famous for not winning a Cup. It wasn’t because she didn’t perform under pressure, but because she never got the chance. While the 24 metre yacht, designed by David Peddic and built in 1994 by Goetz Boat Works, won the right to defend the Cup, Dennis Conner chose Young America (US 36) over Stars & Stripes . The new choice was no match for Team New Zealand’s Black Magic , which beat out Team Dennis Conner four times in a row.

Where is America's Cup yachts Stars & Stripes (US 34) now?

Famed America’s Cup Stars & Stripes (US 34) is earning a chance to prove herself on the racecourse yet again. She sails out of Chicago, racing against Abracadabra (US 54). After failing to win the Cup in 2000, this iteration of Abracadabra was bought by Larry Ellison, who used her as a training boat for his Oracle Team USA.

2003 USA 76 still sailing in San Francisco Bay

Sailed by the US challenging team in preparations for the 2003 America’s Cup in Auckland, New Zealand, USA 76 never made it to the Cup, but she came quite close. Making it to the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup final, USA 76 faced the Swiss Team Alinghi but didn’t come out on top. So the US team arranged for a “rematch” against Alinghi, with two races set in San Francisco Bay. While it didn’t change the results of the Cup, this time USA 76 bested the Swiss competitors twice over.

Where is America’s Cup yacht USA 76 now?

Fittingly, USA 76 resides in San Francisco Bay and is available for sailing. Capture the spirit of the most recent America’s Cup that was raced in the natural amphitheatre of the Bay by climbing aboard USA 76 for a racing adventure under the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Young America (ex Amelia) , 63’ Pilothouse Sloop

Building a new custom yacht often becomes a passion for the yacht's owners; AMELIA is proof to the notion that careful attention to detail will produce a yacht of extraordinary quality.  From the highly polished custom-built stainless steel anchor rollers at her very stem to the beautifully laminated varnished teak stern rail, AMELIA is a complete custom build.

The new yacht was to be fast, comfortable, and long-legged, destined for high latitude adventure sailing. 

Ted Fontaine has created an exceptionally good-looking profile, the pilothouse is low enough to see over and narrow enough to see around from the center cockpit helm station.  Fontaine employed a unique arrangement of elevated seating with a recessed centerline walkway, creating a common line of sight out of the pilothouse when either seated or standing.  The interior arrangement of the pilothouse provides comfortable seating for up to six adults, including dining for four.  The visibility sight lines are excellent fore, aft and athwart ships.

The pilothouse is arranged with forced hot air heating, air conditioning and an abundant amount of natural ventilation; she has two opening hatches and two removable windows aft making her close to a convertible top.  The center cockpit arrangement is a refinement of the many successful Little Harbor center cockpit designs with all of the sail control lines led aft to the primary and secondary winches, both of which are within easy reach of the helmsman position behind the wheel.

The deck arrangement has been drawn to be as simple to sail as she will be to maintain.  Originally conceived as a totally low maintenance deck with no varnished teak at all, the yacht owners, builder and designer could not resist adding the varnished teak nosing to the pilothouse and coach roof as well as the teak cap rail to the bulwark.  The net result is undoubtedly worth the effort.

Originally conceived as a long distance family cruiser, the ocean going interior was arranged to provide comfort afloat for up to six passengers in three double cabins.  The large main salon is accessed via the centerline passage from the pilothouse.  Stepping down three steps, one finds oneself in a wide open salon area with convertible dining table to starboard that folds away neatly into a lounging cocktail table.  The interior décor is comprised of lightly painted bead board trimmed elegantly with glossy varnished mahogany.  Intricate beading along the perimeter of all doors and drawers provides a classical detailing to the interior joinery.  The main salon leads to the two symmetrical guest cabins.  Each features generously sized upper and lower berths and each cabin is outfitted with shared centerline bureaus, a design perfected on the many Little Harbors penned by the Fontaine Group.  Each guest cabin has its own ensuite facilities and appropriately sized hanging lockers.

Aft of the main salon along the port side one passes through a galley more typically found on yachts of much larger size.  Beautifully sculpted Corian adorns the abundant counter space, a four burner stove is located outboard with a double under-hung stainless steel sink inboard.  The galley joinery is painted with light cream-colored paint with classical ventilation rosettes cut into each cabinet door.  The galley is equipped with enough freezer and refrigeration space to keep a young family of six well fed for months at a time.  This will be greatly appreciated by the crew as the owner intends to cruise to the more remote higher latitudes of Labrador, and later to Chile.  They will not want for fresh food.

Opposite the large front opening refrigerator/freezer space, one finds a detailed electrical panel and large watertight door that leads into the walk-in engine room.  It is truly amazing what the designers have fit into this 63' design.  Most yachts this size are designed with only the interior accommodations in mind.  Fontaine and his team have been able to achieve an excellent accommodations plan while providing an almost commercial quality to the engine room space.  Not one but two or even three people can fit within the engine room where access is provided by walk-through doors from the galley or aft owner's shower.

The owner’s cabin is located aft where the motion in heavy weather is considered more comfortable for long distance sailing.  The cabin is outfitted with an oversized double sea berth to starboard and convertible settee/berth to port.  The owner's aft cabin is large and airy with cleverly placed hull ports and deck hatches.  A private means of egress to the aft deck provide this cabin with custom with a free flow of natural air making life onboard clean and comfortable.  Moving forward to starboard is the oversized head with custom Corian countertop and a separate stall shower that features a walk-though watertight door to the surprisingly large working engine room.

The owners initial wish list described a yacht that could go anywhere with a high level of performance and comfort.  She should be as light as is practical considering the stores and sea kindliness that the owner has come to expect.  An all up displacement of 60,000 lbs. fully loaded, of which 22,000 lbs. is positioned down low in an externally cast bulb keep, will provide the sailing performance levels expected of the owner.  Of course one can always design lighter, narrower, faster yachts, but the objective with this design was to make the fastest boat possible considering the owner's requirements for shallow draft, interior accommodations, engine room comfort, sea kindliness, and extended range.  A deep hydro-dynamically shaped centerboard extends the draft from the 6.5' fixed draft to over 12' when lowered, enabling excellent upwind sailing angles while minimizing wetted surface off the wind.  A retractable hydraulic bow thruster is fitted forward in the forepeak allowing for easier maneuvering in tight quarters.

The owner, like any true sailor, anticipates some level of competitive offshore and coastal racing, so racing would also be included in the itinerary for this new vessel.  While she is equipped with a stowaway mast, the mast itself is built of carbon fiber and the mainsail is fitted with vertical battens, providing a roach that would be close to that of conventional mainsails.  The rudder is constructed utilizing carbon fiber and the most sophisticated self aligning needle bearings which enable the helmsman to literally feel the water flow on the rudder.

Witnessing the owners' faces beaming with pride lends evidence that their original dreams have become reality through the craftsmanship of Lyman Morse and Fontaine Design Group.

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The incredible story behind Roy Lichtenstein’s America’s Cup Sailboat

One of lichtenstein’s largest and last works was a seventy-seven foot hull, now on display in vermont.

On May 26, the America’s Cup begins in Bermuda, with the U.S. as defending champion.

On the same day,”Young America: Roy Lichtenstein and the America’s Cup” a show that celebrates Roy Lichtenstein ‘s beautiful design of a mermaid-decorated sailboat—with its own America’s Cup history—goes on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in Vermont.    

In 1994, the pop artist was commissioned to create a custom artwork for skipper Kevin Mahaney , a U.S. Olympic medalist in the 1992 Barcelona games. Not your traditional artistic commission, Lichtenstein donated the America’s Cup boat design in exchange for a nationwide children’s arts education program funded by corporate sponsors. It would have otherwise been prohibitively expensive—a multimillion-dollar project. (The whole campaign in today’s dollars would have been around $45 million, notes Mahaney.)

The boat, dubbed “Young America,” is decorated with the Lichtenstein artwork Mermaid , which features an undulating blonde with a grey fishtail moving gracefully through waves. The first and only time a boat in the America’s cup was designed by an artist, the idea was to inspire young people.

Mahaney, an art collector and patron at Middlebury, his former college, says when he first met Lichtenstein to discuss the boat project he brought his children along. And when Lichtenstein lay down on the studio floor to do crayon drawings with them, he knew he had found the right man for the cause.

The collector owns the first sketch Lichtenstein did of the Mermaid and it is also on view in the exhibition along with other preliminary works, a series of models, as well as the premiere of a 2017 film by Theodore Bogosian, who documented the artist working on the commission and the race itself. Mahaney says he likes to collect art from sketch through to the finished product, by such artists as  Sarah Morris and Richard DuPont , to illustrate to students how much effort is involved in artmaking. In the case of Mermaid, for example, the artist tweaked the chin of the mermaid over and over to get it right.

Richard Saunders, director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art, says the tale of “Young America” is “a great story” and the show is a highlight at the museum this summer. (Famous art-world graduates of Middlebury include Richard Gober and art dealer Marianne Boesky, and art is the 4th most popular major at the school of 2,600 students, notes Saunders.)

The seventy-seven foot hull, which has been displayed at Storm King in Mountainville, New York since 2003, is currently poised spectacularly above a pond on the campus. It will then travel to Newport, Rhode Island, for a pop-up exhibition this fall, says Mahaney, before hopefully heading to the Whitney Museum of American Art , where the project was first announced a quarter-century ago.

The sail, or spinnaker, also designed by Lichtenstein—a glorious sunburst design—has been missing since the race. In the hopes of displaying the hull and sail together, Mahany is offering a $25,000 reward for its return.

And while “Young America” didn’t win in 1995—an America’s Cup that is controversial and debated to this day—Mahaney still plans to head to Bermuda to catch some of the races.

“Young America: Roy Lichtenstein and the America’s Cup” is on at the Middlebury College Museum of Art through August 13.  museum.middlebury.edu 

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Design Of Young America Was Adequate, Says Farr Design

• January 29, 2000

Young America was designed strong enough to withstand the pounding seas on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf in the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger yachting series

Young America was designed strong enough to withstand the pounding seas on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf in the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger yachting series, co-designer Russell Bowler says. He yesterday pointed to construction problems and inadequate repairs made to the boat a week before it broke up and almost sank during racing on November 9.

Bowler revealed Young America’s first boat, of the same name as the syndicate, had demonstrated structural problems for two months before the break-up. Bowler, who helped design the boat along with his partner, New Zealand-born Bruce Farr, said USA53 had delamination problems since its launch in September. Delamination occurs when the skin on the hull does not bond correctly with the carbon fibre core. That is a construction problem.

Bowler said his reaction to the near-sinking had been one of “utter horror” because he had been convinced the side-deck design of USA53 had been strong enough. “Contrary to a lot of speculation, the design was not marginal or light in this area, but in fact had adequate material to resist the given loading.” Bowler said the side-deck, where the boat later broke, had a particularly thick skin in order to ensure it was strong enough, forwards and backwards, to carry the loads from the rig. But he said it appeared a repair carried out a week before the break had been inadequate.

He said neither Farr Yacht Design nor the original boat builders had known about that repair. Bowler said Young America would work with International America’s Cup Class (IACC) technical measurer Ken McAlpine to consider whether the design and construction rules needed to be altered to reduce the risk of boats breaking. But he said IACC boats were like Formula One racing cars and could be fragile. That was why it was up to designers to ensure boats were strong enough to withstand sea and wind conditions.

Bowler said Young America had raced and practised in big seas without problems before November 9. Bowler said Farr Yacht Design issued a statement yesterday on the cause of the problem to prevent speculation about what caused the breakage and criticism of the design company. He said Farr Yacht Design was disappointed Young America had not released their updated findings on the breakdown, which included the report of an independent insurance examiners.

Bowler spoke to reporters from Farr’s base in the United States as race three in the Louis Vuitton Cup finals was abandoned because of a lack of wind on the Hauraki Gulf. Prada and AmericaOne each have one win in the best-of-nine series.

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YACHT RACING; Young America Keeps It A 3-Boat Race

By Barbara Lloyd

• April 25, 1995

In a defense finals that has turned into an America's Cup roulette of winners and losers, Young America scored a critical victory today. The team, which had lost its past two matches on tactical errors, defeated Stars & Stripes by 52 seconds.

Had Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes team won, it would have clinched the right to defend the America's Cup against New Zealand's Black Magic. But Young America's victory kept alive the chances of all three of the yachts competing in the Citizen Cup defenders' trials.

For Conner, though, Tuesday's race has become a win-it-all or lose-it-all proposition. Stars & Stripes will win the defenders' title if it defeats Mighty Mary in the last of the 12-race, round-robin finals. But if Mighty Mary wins, the three finalists will each have 5 points. That would eliminate Conner, since the racing format dictates that the boat that had the lowest score in the semifinals is eliminated. Mighty Mary and Young America would compete in a sailoff Wednesday.

"It could be the irony of the finals that Stars & Stripes does not defend even though it is the boat with the best record," Paul Cayard, the boat's alternate helmsman, said recently. "That would be tough on us, and we would be bummed. But that was part of the deal."

It has taken more than two weeks to get to this point. Besides four days of abandoned races because of weather, no one boat has showed clear superiority over another. But now, at the most, there are only two days of racing left. Stars & Stripes and Young America are tied at 5 points each; Mighty Mary and its mostly women's crew has 4 points.

Young America took a calculated risk in its race against Stars & Stripes today by removing the Nelsons -- the winglets it had added to its rudder -- in anticipation of light winds and calm seas. The appendages were added in the third day of the finals to help ease the boat's pitching motion in big waves and stronger breezes.

"We were in phase with the weather conditions today," John Marshall, president of the Young America team, said after the race. He said his crew also had a new mainsail, which seemed to help.

A change was also made to the colorful Roy Lichtenstein graphic of a mermaid that sweeps down the topsides of Young America. "We painted the eyes open on our mermaid," Marshall said. "A Portuguese fisherman here told us that it is traditional that a mermaid's eyes are always open."

The unexpected turn of Stars & Stripes holding the trump card entering the final two races has bonded the other two teams.

The crew on Mighty Mary lent its support to Young America by going out with its two boats this morning to help Kevin Mahaney and his team warm up for its match against Stars & Stripes. And Sunday night, Young America invited the Mighty Mary crew over to its compound for a cookout.

"Tuning with Mighty Mary has really helped," Marshall said. "Since we only have one boat, having another team to warm up with really sharpened us up before the race."

Tom Whidden, tactician on Stars & Stripes, said later that he considered it unfair of the Mighty Mary team to help his opponent. "The problem I have," he said, "is that I have been involved in six America's Cups, and never would the defense committee allow two competitors to do something to defeat another competitor."

Both boats sailed aggressively at the start in a struggle for opposite ends of the line. Mahaney, who steered Young America off to the left, said he was satisfied with that tactic. Five minutes into the race, Young America tacked ahead and to leeward of Stars & Stripes, a lee-bow maneuver that forced the dark blue boat to go back to the right.

A crew that has been riddled with poor tactics and a 2-5 record in this finals series sailed a clever race today. After forcing Stars & Stripes into two extra tacks on the right side of the course, Young America rounded the first mark ahead by 15 seconds.

In the downwind run, Conner, who was back on the helm, staged a fake jibe to confuse Young America. But Young America was in sync with the eight-knot westerly breeze. By the second mark, Mahaney and his crew had nearly tripled their lead to 40 seconds. -------------------- Auguin Close to Second Title

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Yacht Almost Sinks In Cup Race

November 8, 1999 / 11:25 PM EST / AP

New York's Young America cracked open and nearly sank during a race Tuesday in the America's Cup challenger series.

With Young America leading Japan's Nippon approaching the final turn, the hull of the $4 million boat buckled just behind the mast after crashing through a series of 5-foot waves.

Skipper Ed Baird ordered his crew to abandon ship. Team members who leaped into the icy waters of Auckland's Hauraki Gulf were plucked to safety.

With the hull bent into a banana shape, some crewmen returned to the yacht with flotation bags and pumps and began cutting ropes and throwing sails and other equipment to waiting support boats in efforts to salvage as much as they could.

The crew frantically worked the pumps to keep the black-hulled yacht afloat as it was towed gingerly to port.

Only once in the 148-year history of sailing's most prized trophy has a boat sank during competition in 1995 oneAustralia broke in half and sank in about 90 seconds off San Diego.

With winds of around 20 knots and waves around a yard, conditions Monday were similar to those experienced when the Australian boat sank. Such conditions are not uncommon for America's Cup races.

John Bertrand, oneAustralia's skipper, said it appeared that Young America's hull had not split below the water line.

"It would appear a compression failure through the deck, otherwise the boat would be at the bottom of the ocean now," Bertrand said.

Young America was leading Nippon by three boat lengths when Baird steered from port to starboard for a final tack before rounding the top mark. The 75-foot boat reared up in one wave and came down hard into a second. The deck folded with a loud crack.

"When these boats are semi-airborne coming down into the next wave they are generating up to 60 tons of compression load," Bertrand said in a running commentary posted on the official America's Cup Web site. "Its not surprising that there can be structural damage."

Young America's $40 million campaign, representing the New York Yacht Club, will now have to rely on its second boat.

In other races, Italy's Prada extended its lead over the field with a 3 minute, 43 second victory over Young Australia; the Spanish challenge defeated the French by 19 seconds; Hawaii's Abracadabra beat Dennis Connor's Stars and Stripes by 3 seconds; and AmericaOne defeated Switzerland's Fast 2000 by 3 minutes, 29 seconds.

Eleven syndicates are competing in the Louis Vuitton Cup series to decide who will meet defender Team New Zealand next year for the America's Cup.

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