America's Cup: The Freo Files - KZ-7 vs US-61 in a big breeze

12:01 PM Sat 19 Mar 2011 GMT

'KZ-7 in the big breeze in Fremantle'

The Fremantle Doctor was the single feature that differentiated the 1987 America's Cup from every regatta that has occurred before or since. The strong on-shore breeze that came in every afternoon, arrived around 1.00pm, just in time for the racing. The normally sedate 12 Metre class came to life in the Fremantle Doctor, and provided a spectacular television spectacle, on schedule every race day. Here we see New Zealand Challenge's KZ-7 racing Newport Harbour YC' s US-61 skippered by the inimitable Tom Blackaller at the end of the Round Robin phase of the Louis Vuitton Cup. More of the excellent ...

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