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Muskrat: A Surprise Bid for the America’s Cup

July 15th, 2013

By Fletcher C. Bauman After reading Scuttlebutt 3879, I couldn’t agree more about the mess that the 34th America’s Cup has become. I thought about that at and pulled an old photo out of my archives. I thought this photo might have a little resonation, such as, why don’t we get back to the old


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AC34: No Team NZ buzz on streets of San Francisco

July 15th, 2013

By Dave Armstrong, Stuff.co.nz It was meant to be a quiet trip overseas, away from things New Zealand. It was only after we booked our tickets that my wife and I realised that we would be in San Francisco during the opening of the America’s Cup. We were expecting to see cup hype everywhere, and


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AC34: Editor’s Notes after Week 1

July 14th, 2013

Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck shares his notes after the first week of the challenger series: * I spoke to Artemis Racing CEO Paul Cayard, who was clearly frustrated about media rumors that his team must now quit following the International Jury decision. The only way his team must quit is if the class rules get


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Three things sucking the wind out of America’s Cup

July 14th, 2013

There were lots of promises and predictions when plans for the 34th America’s Cup were announced in 2010. Lots of changes, lots of selling. Dumb it down, make it sexy. Throw out the chess board, bring in the dodgeball. X Games for the Y Generation. Since its launch, AC34 has been in slow freefall. While


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The America’s Cup fails to impress with revolutionary adjustments

July 14th, 2013

By Stuart Alexander, The Independent (July 14, 2013) – It was supposed to be a wholesale restyling of an event that goes back to a yacht race around the Isle of Wight in 1851. It was going to be, rather insultingly to some, a switch from the Flintstone to the Facebook generation. Instead it has



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