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The PACT '95 team considered Young America as an artistic masterpiece, sporting a 22.8m mermaid on its hull designed by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, who also painted a spectacular spinnaker.
1995
The selection defender trials, 1995 Citizen Cup, are sailed between the women's team America3 Mighty Mary USA 43, Stars & Stripes USA 34 and Young America.
In the first defender round (January 12 to 20), Young America wins five of the six races. In the second round (January 29 to February 7) it wins two out of four races. In the third round (February 15 to 23), it wins four races and loses two. The fourth round is sailed from March 2 to 8 and Young America wins three races and loses one.
The defender semi-finals are held from March 16 to 31. Eight races are sailed, all won (except one) by Young America.
In the defender finals, from April 10 to 22, all three boats race. Eight matches are sailed. Young America is beaten five times and eliminated. Stars and Stripes is selected as the official defender of the 1995 America's Cup.
Although the overall win-loss record of Young America is 24/12, demonstrating it is the best defender candidate of the three, the Maine boat is eliminated.
But, Team Dennis Conner request that they defend the Cup using Young America instead of Stars & Stripes.
The America's Cup
May 6 to 13, 1995, off San Diego, California.
Young America competes against Team New Zealand NZL 32 in the best of nine race series
Race course
The course is 18.5 nautical miles off San Diego and is made of six windward-leeward legs with a downwind finish.
Results
- May 6, first race: Team New Zealand beats Young America by two minutes and 45 seconds.
- May 8, second race: Team New Zealand beats Young America by four minutes and 14 seconds.
- May 3, third race: Team New Zealand beats Young America by one minute and 51 seconds.
- May 11, fourth race: Team New Zealand beats Young America by three minutes and 37 seconds.
- May 13, fifth race: Team New Zealand beats Young America by one minute and 50 seconds.
Team New Zealand Black Magic beats Young America by five wins to nil
Young America
First nicknamed 'Blonde Mermaid' or 'Mermaid' then, after January 4, 1995, and tornado damages, 'Dorothy'.
1995
Sail number: USA 36
International America's Cup Class (IACC)
United States
Yacht club: New York Yacht Club / San Diego Yacht Club, San Diego, California, United States
Unsuccessful defender of the 1995 America's Cup
Owner: Syndicate PACT 95 (founded in 1992), Partnership for America's Cup Technology, Bangor, Maine, USA, with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), The Ford Motor Company, Cray Research, and the Boeing Company. President: John K. Marshall. Chief operating officer: Robert Hopkins, Jr.
Design team lead by Principal Designer Bruce Nelson of Nelson/Marek Yacht Design
Design team manager: John Kuhn of SAIC
Design team: Jim Teeters from Sparkman & Stephens, Carl Scrag (SAIC fluid dynamicist) and Karl Kirkman (SAIC expert on tank and wind tunnel testing)
Computer time and associated technical support: Cray super computers
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), appendages design and wind tunnel test supervision (keel fins, ballast bulbs, wings, rudders and canards): Boeing
Scale model tests (towing tank and wind tunnel), model construction, CFD: Ford Motor Company
Overall design program, performance simulation: SAIC
Tank test facilities: University of Michigan towing tank with Grumman scientists
Wind tunnel facilities: University of Maryland
Technology team: MIT, Sparkman & Stephens, Ockam, Altair Engineering, Atlantic Applied Research Corp., FMA Consulting
Builder: Goetz Custom Sailboats, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States
Sailmakers: Steve Gruver from North Sails, Steve Calder as sail designer
Year of building: 1993 - 1994 (4 ˝ month build)
Christened: January 7, 1994
Homeport: Harbour Court, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
During the selection defender trials, 1995 Citizen Cup
Skipper: Kevin Mahaney
Afterguard: John Kostecki as tactician, Ken Read as strategist, Robert Hopkins, Jr. as navigator.
During the 1995 America's Cup (May 5 to 13, 1995)
Skipper: Dennis Conner
Tactician: Tom Whidden
Navigator: Jim Brady
Tactical strategist/alternating helmsman: Paul Cayard
Crew: 16
Data
Construction: Carbon fiber
Dimensions
Length overall (LOA): 23.60m
Length waterline (LWL): 17.98 m
Beam: 4.57m
Draft: 3.96m
Sail area: 330.75m2
Displacement: 27.500 tonnes
Mast: 33.50m
J.T./nc
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Year of building
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1993 |
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Launched
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7/01/1994 |
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Edition 29(1995)
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Crew
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16 |
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Hull
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Carbon Fiber |
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Mast
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Carbon Fiber |
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L.O.A
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23.6 |
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L.W.L
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17.98 |
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Mast
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33.5 |
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Beam
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4.57 |
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Boom
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Sail Area
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Displacament
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27.5 |
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Draft
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3.96 |
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Rating
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IACC |
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Ballast
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