My info was based on one of Conners books. Keep mind that it was his story and he can tell it how he pleases, regardless of how accurate. My point is that 1988 was a screwed up cup and wasn't about who the better sailor was but rather, who had the better lawyers, kinda like the one now. Clearly though this is a sore subject for some people so tensions and bashing will continue to arise as they already have on this thread. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Oh well, lifes too short, lets go sail. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Ok, then you probably do have your facts right - I thought they knew ahead of time what Fay's boat looked like.
What I don't think the American team should have done at that time is immediately go to court to contest the challenge and start all that mess and they really handled themselves poorly publicly. They screwed up and left themselves unprotected by not finding a challenger quickly after the last AC.
