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Stars
& Stripes receives sail number (10/23/01)
(source
: stars-stripes.com)
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After OneWorld and USA-65,
Dennis Conner announced today that his newest navy blue
America's Cup boat Stars & Stripes, which is quietly being
built at New England Boatworks in Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
has reached the phase in construction where the America's
Cup Class' Technical Director Ken McAlpine has assigned
the boat a sail number.
"I am happy to announce that we have been issued sail number
66," said Conner, who will represent the New York Yacht
Club during the 31st America's Cup. "In 2000 we raced USA-55,
for this new boat we have been issued USA-66, and I think
repeating digits are good luck," he said with a smile. "It's
always thrilling to reach this stage of an America's Cup
campaign." This is Conner's ninth America's Cup challenge.
"The next year is going to be an exciting one for myself,
our team and of course the New York Yacht Club," said Conner
in closing. "We plan to launch our boat in January and start
a full training regimen shortly thereafter." Team Dennis
Conner will be training in the waters off of Long Beach,
California before relocating to their New Zealand compound
next summer.
Who's receives sail numbers 62, 63 and 64 ?
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News
from Team Dennis Conner (08/09/01)
(source
: stars-stripes.com)
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While attending CA World,
one of the world’s largest software conventions hosted by
Computer Associates in Orlando, Florida in July, Dennis
Conner unveiled a new ‘look’ for his America’s Cup Challenger
yacht, Stars & Stripes. The navy blue boat that has become
synonymous with the four-time America’s Cup winner, will
proudly display the Computer Associates (CA) logo on every
spinnaker throughout the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Series
and the America’s Cup.
Conner was on hand throughout the four-day event to talk
with CA World attendees about the history of the America’s
Cup and the status of the Team Dennis Conner/New York Yacht
Club 2003 America’s Cup Challenge. “We will start building
the first of two new boats at New England Boatworks in Portsmouth,
Rhode Island soon,” explained Conner to many interested
attendees. “Our design team is very close to being finished
with the first boat and as soon as they’re comfortable that
they have a design that can beat whatever the other Challengers
and Team New Zealand throw at us, construction will begin.”
With less than fifteen months until the start of the Louis
Vuitton Cup Challenger series, Team Dennis Conner’s crew
of veteran American sailors, many of whom have previously
won the America’s Cup, will head to Cowes, England later
this month to race on various boats at the America’s Cup
Jubilee, a regatta celebrating the Cup’s 150th anniversary.
“We are very proud of the team we have assembled,” concluded
Conner. “There is a lot of experience and talent on our
team – we intend to make the New York Yacht Club, Computer
Associates and the rest of the United States very proud.”
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