Gentlemen, Start Your Sailboats
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Summon those boat-builders. Have them build identical 123-foot monohulls or identical 60-foot catamarans. Put Dennis Conner and his crew in one and New Zealand’s skipper and his crew in another.
Skill against skill would decide the possessor of the America’s Cup. Not a revolutionary boat design, not a judge and not a vague scrawl called the Deed of Gift.
DOUG PADILLA
Los Angeles
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