Sail Wars: America’s Cup Comeback

Sail Wars dives into the fierce competition to win back the America’s Cup. This one-hour video follows the high-tech journey of Stars and Stripes ’87, the third and final yacht crafted by the Sail America team in their bold quest to dethrone Australia and bring the Cup home.

From the transcript:

This is a story of Sail America’s three-year effort to design a yacht capable of recapturing sailing’s greatest trophy. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at a major 12 Meter campaign, one that takes us to the highest levels of international sport and to the frontiers of science.

In early 1984 John Marshall was named coordinator of the Sail America design team we can do the best we can his job was to organize and manage an American design effort that would be technologically second to none.

“We decided that what we would have to do is put together a multidisciplinary team,” explained Marshall. “People from specifically the sailing environment professionals, in that area our three yacht designers, but also people whose expertise was much broader – theoreticians from a university background, practicing aeronautical engineers, people involved in military development, people from the ship hydrodynamics background – so that what we would have would be the best in the country in a wide range of skills that all could be brought to bear on this particular problem.”

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