Fisher's View: San Francisco is perfect for the America's Cup

12:01 PM Sat 18 Jun 2011 GMT

'San Francisco&rsquo;&rsquo;s cityscape provides the backdrop 34th America's Cup' Gilles Martin-Raget/www.americascup.com Click Here to view large photo

Any underlying fears that the America's Cup was off course should have been fully allayed after last week's tests over the proposed course area for the 34th Cup match in 2013. The two Oracle Racing AC-45s, skippered by Russell Coutts and Jimmy Spithill, showed the world that the venue is perfect and that Catamarans will provide all the excitement due from the Cup in the 21st Century. The weather conditions for which San Francisco Bay is justly famous were reminiscent of those in Western Australia in 1987 when the Fremantle Doctor made his house calls at ...

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by Bob Fisher