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Article: NEW YACHTS TRASH AMERICA'S CUP MOLD POSSIBLE MISMATCH LOOMS AS DESIGNERS, UNFETTERED BY OLD RULES, BUILD RADICALLY DIFFERENT BOATS.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 13, 1988
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Consider a duel in which the antagonists have agreed on pistols.
Back to back, chins high, they pace off 20 steps.
They stop, wheel around, aim -- and then gape in astonishment
at the other's choice of armament as they stare down the
threatening barrels of two wildly different, bizarre and
sophisticated weapons.
Then they cry "Foul!" and take each other to court.
Welcome to the America's Cup, 1988, a duel that is tentatively
scheduled for late summer in two utterly dissimilar, one-of-a-kind
craft. Yes, they are wind-powered and, yes, they float. But
otherwise these racing boats appear to have evolved from separate
missing links in the evolutionary chain of yacht design.
If all goes ...