2000 Louis Vuitton Cup
5th Louis Vuitton Cup | |
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Date | 18 October 1999 – 6 February 2000 |
Winner | Prada Challenge
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Location | Auckland, New Zealand |
The 5th
Details
After winning the
The teams
The New York Yacht Club was the challenger of record.[1] By 31 January 1998 16 teams from 10 nations had made the $US 250,000 deposit to officially challenge for the America's Cup.[2] In the end only 11 challenges from seven nations competed for the Louis Vuitton Cup. Hong Kong, British and Russian challenges withdrew while an American team and a French team merged into existing challenges.
Club | Team | Skipper | Yachts |
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Yacht Club Punta Ala | Prada Challenge |
Francesco de Angelis |
ITA-45 & ITA 48 |
St. Francis Yacht Club | America One | Paul Cayard | USA-49 |
Waikiki Yacht Club | Aloha Racing | John Kolius | USA-50 & USA-54 |
San Francisco Yacht Club | America True | Dawn Riley | USA-51 |
Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona | Desafio Español | Pedro Campos Calvo-Sotelo | ESP-47 & ESP-56 |
Club Nautique de Morges | Fast 2000 | Marc Pajot | SUI-59 |
Union Nationale Pour La Course au Large |
Le Defi BTT |
Bertrand Pacé | FRA-46 |
Nippon Yacht Club | Nippon Challenge | Peter Gilmour | JPN-44 & JPN-52 |
San Diego Yacht Club | Team Dennis Conner |
Dennis Conner | USA-55 |
New York Yacht Club | Young America | Ed Baird | USA-53 & USA-58 |
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia | Young Australia | James Spithill |
AUS-31 |
Prada Challenge (ITA)
A strong two boat challenge led by
Umberto Panerai was a trainer.[6]
AmericaOne (USA)
Skippered by Paul Cayard, AmericaOne was one of two syndicates from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000. AmericaOne purchased OneAustralia as a training boat before developing USA-49 and USA-61. The team included tactician John Kostecki, navigator Terry Hutchinson, Lexi Gahagan, Billy Bates, Curtis Blewett, Josh Belsky, Gavin Brady, Sean Clarkson, Justin Clougher, Kevin Hall, Mike Howard, Pieter van Nieuwenhuyzen,[7] Morgan Larson, David McClintock, Jim Nicholas, Carter Perrin, Greg Prussia, Russ Silvestri, Ralf Steitz, Phil Trinter, Morgan Trubovich, Matt Welling and Ray Davies. Robert Billingham was the chief operations officer.[8]
Aloha Racing (USA)
Funded by Dr
America True (USA)
America True was one of two syndicates from the
Desafio Español (ESP)
Skippered by
Before the regatta a crew member, Martin Wizner, died almost instantly when he was hit in the head by a broken piece of equipment.[16]
FAST 2000 (SUI)
Led by experienced French campaigner Marc Pajot and with German Jochen Schümann as helmsman, the FAST 2000 team was the countries first America's Cup challenge. SUI 59 was an unknown quantity when it arrived in Auckland but the syndicate ended up with a disappointing 2 wins over the course of the Cup.
Other crew members included Enrico Chieffi, Pierre Fehlmann,[17] Yves Detrey, and Hans Bernard.[18][19]
Le Defi BTT (FRA)
Nippon Challenge (JPN)
The third challenge from the Japanese syndicate funded by
Team Dennis Conner (USA)
Team Dennis Conner was
Young America (USA)
Representing the New York Yacht Club, the challenger of record, Young America built on John Marshall's PACT '95 syndicate.[1] The team's yacht's USA 53 and USA 58 were designed by Bruce Farr and built on the 1995 Cup defender Young America. The Helmsman was Ed Baird and the crew included tactician Jim Brady,[25] navigator Ed Adams, Ross Halcrow, Tom Burnham, Dean Brenner,[26] and Jamie Gale.[27]
Young Australia (AUS)
Young Australia was
Round robin
Three round robin series (RR1-RR3) were held. During RR1 a team scored 1 point per win. During RR2 a team scored 4 points per win. During RR3 a team scored 9 points per win.
Knock-out stage
Semi-finals
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | |
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1 | AmericaOne | 10 | 8 | 2 | 8 | Advance to finals |
2 | Prada Challenge
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10 | 7 | 3 | 7 | |
3 | Team Dennis Conner
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10 | 7 | 3 | 7 | |
4 | Nippon Challenge | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
5 | America True | 10 | 3 | 7 | 3 | |
6 | Le Defi BTT
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10 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
Final
Team | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | Pts |
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Prada Challenge
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W | +1:33 | W | W | +0:34 | +0:09 | +1:06 | W | W | 5 |
AmericaOne | +0:25 | W | DNF | DNF | W | W | W | +0:37 | +0:49 | 4 |
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