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Young America was built for the PACT 95 racing syndicate, based in Maine and led by John Marshall, for the 1995 Citizen Cup. [1] The Team Dennis Conner syndicate, sailing Stars & Stripes, won the Citizen Cup and the right to defend the America's Cup against the challenge of Team New Zealand, sailing the yacht Black Magic.
Newport Harbor and San Diego Yacht Club: 9 March 2013 Craig Thomas Williams (USA), 36 : Uncontrollable Urge, Columbia 32 Carbon [19] [20] Chicago-Mackinac Race Chicago Yacht Club: 21 July 2018 Jon Santarelli (USA), 53 Imedi, TP52 overboard resulting from wave strike [21] 2024 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Cruising Yacht Club of Australia
America 3 's successor, Mighty Mary, was on her way to a race-off with Young America, the boat of the third syndicate that year, to determine who went through to the 1995 America's Cup, in the lead of what ended up being the last race of the Defender Series over Stars & Stripes.
Yacht club City Country First challenge AC Wins AC Losses LVC Appearances Bay of Quinte Yacht Club: Belleville: Canada: 1881: 0: 1 (1881) 0 Cercle de la Voile de Paris: Paris: France: 1970: 0: 0: 3 (1970, 1974, 2007) Chicago Yacht Club: Chicago, IL: United States: 1987: 0: 0: 1 (1987) Circolo della Vela Sicilia: Palermo: Italy: 2013: 0: 1 (2021 ...
Conner has won the America's Cup three times, successfully defending the Cup in 1980 and 1988, and winning as the challenger in 1987.His 4–3 loss in 1983 to Australian Alan Bond's wing-keeled challenger Australia II was the first Cup defender to be defeated in the 132-year history of the race, simultaneously ending a run by the New York Yacht Club that began with the first contest.
The 29th America's Cup was contested between the winner of the 1995 Citizen Cup, Team Stars & Stripes, which switched to the yacht Young America for the competition, and the winner of the 1995 Louis Vuitton Cup, Team New Zealand, with the yacht Black Magic. New Zealand swept all five races to take the cup away from the US for only the second ...
Nelson is a veteran America's Cup racer as well as a designer, he teamed with Dennis Conner on three Stars & Stripes boats (12-meter, catamaran, and IACC) from 1985 to 1995 as both a racer and designer. In 1995, he was the principal designer for the PACT 95 defense syndicate yacht Young America, which was ultimately chosen to be the defender.
Renamed GBR–52. During 2007 based in Valencia. Since early 2008 sailing on Lake Constance. The keel has been shortened to allow her to pass over a bar in the marina entrance. USA–53 Young America: Young America: Hull failure during LVC R-Rs: Luna Rossa Challenge, location unknown USA–54 Aloha Racing: Sailed in LVC R-R 3, finished 9th