From: wwalker@qualcomm.com (Bill Walker)
Subject: America's Cup results for April 13, 1992
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:41:28 GMT

America's Cup results for Monday, April 13, 1992, from the San Diego 
Union-Tribune.

CHALLENGERS resume racing April 19.

DEFENDERS

Conditions:  Wind:  10-7 [sic] knots at the start, freshening suddenly to 
11 knots at the start of the reaches and holding at 9-11 thereafter [I 
think this differs from what ESPN and the feature article said.  Feature 
article said the wind hovered around 7 knots during the race, being 
stronger both before and after].  Direction:  northwest, slowly and 
steadily shifting 20 degrees to the west.  Seas:  2-foot swell with medium 
chop.

Stars & Stripes defeated Kanza by 2:12.  Stars & Stripes clinches bert in 
defense finals with [Monday's] victory.  Early morning forecast of 
12-to-15 knot winds favored Kanza, Bill Koch's newest boat and a hull 
designed for stronger winds.  But a small cold front pushed through the 
area yesterday morning and the winds were much lighter than expected.  
Stars & Stripes favors winds in the 6-to-8 knot range and the were, for 
Dennis Conner's team, a perfect 7 at the start.  Kanza starting 
helmsman-tactician Dave Dellenbaugh had been winning more than his share 
of starts against Conner, but yesterday Conner and tactician Tom Whidden 
won a huge advantage before the start.  S&S was pushing Kanza down toward 
the pin end of the line as time was running out.  With 40 seconds to go, 
S&S tacked toward the favored right side of the line.  Kanza had to burn 
off speed to avoid crossing the line early, then tacked to the right as 
the starting gun fired.  Less than a minute after the start, Conner tacked 
Stars & Stripes across Kanza's bow with a 1-1/2 boat length lead.  Three 
minutes later, both boats tacked onto a long starboard tack as the winds 
died to 6 knots [funny, they didn't mention that in the "conditions" 
summary].  Sailing on starboard into the stiff swell off San Diego is the 
least favored point of sail for Conner's year-old and beamy Stars & 
Stripes.  [Hmm.  The summary ends here.  Seems like they truncated it.  
Anyway, S&S was ahead by a whopping 4:09 at the first mark, 4:19 at the 
next, gained a little and lost a little on various marks and won by 2:12.]

From the feature story:  Koch: "The winds today... I wish I had Dennis 
Conner's luck and my money.  Dennis knows how to play these San Diego 
conditions.  He's a master at it.  I am extremely disappointed.  We were 
hoping to dethrone the king today.  But he's still the king.  The winds..."
Melges:  "We misread the current [at the start].  The boat got away and we 
had to tack with virtually no speed." [the current was a trials-high 2 
knots].

Final Trials Schedule:
DEFENSE:  Stars & Stripes (Dennis Conner) vs. America^3 (Bill Koch and 
Buddy Melges) in a best-of-13 series.
CHALLENGERS:  Il Moro di Venezia (Paul Cayard) vs. New Zealand (Rod Davis) 
in a best-of-nine series.

April 18:  Defender race 1.
April 19:  Defender race 2, Challenger race 1.
April 20:  Defender race 3, Challenger race 2.
April 21:  lay day.
April 22:  Defender race 4, Challenger race 3.
April 23:  Defender race 5, Challenger race 4.
April 24:  Defender race 6.
April 25:  Defender race 7, Challenger race 5.
April 26:  Defender race 8 (if necessary), Challenger race 6 (if 
necessary).
April 27:  Lay day.
April 28:  Defender race 9 (if necessary), Challenger race 7 (if 
necessary).
April 29:  Defender race 10 (if necessary), Challenger race 8 (if 
necessary).
April 30:  Defender race 11 (if necessary), Challenger race 9 (if 
necessary).
May 1:     Defender race 12 (if necessary).
May 2:     Defender race 13 (if necessary).

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