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From: Chuck Holst <cholst_at_bitstream.net>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] black hulls
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:28:52 -0500
>>
Why do we call it the America's Cup anymore anyway?  Between the New
Zealanders, the Australians, and the Italians, why to we Stateside
bother?  >>

It's because the cup was first won by the yacht America -- nothing to do with the nationality of the current (or previous) owners.

Chuck Holst


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