Letter from the Defenderland: How the America's Cup could be run

9:17 AM Sun 25 Jul 2010 GMT

'Extreme 40 being used in Valencia to test the Multihull vs Monohull option for the 34th America's Cup' BMW Oracle Racing &copy Photo Gilles Martin-Raget Click Here to view large photo

Noted America's Cup crewman, film producer, and San Franciscan resident, Dick Enersen shares his perspective of the latest happening in the America's Cup world: As most of you know, I am 'old school' with respect to the America's Cup; so old, in fact, that in May I attended the fiftieth reunion of my class at a very old (1791) high school. I have written that it will be very difficult to conduct an old school America's Cup on San Francisco Bay and, frankly, nothing has changed on the Bay to alter that thought, since the tides still rip, container ships, ...

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by Dick Enersen