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1980 America's Cup was held in September 1980 at
Newport, Rhode Island. The US defender,
Freedom, skippered by
Dennis Conner, defeated the Australian challenger,
Australia, skippered by
James Hardy. four races to one. This was the last successful defence of the cup by the
New York Yacht Club and the last defender designed by the naval architectural firm,
Sparkman & Stephens. It was the sixth unsuccessful challenge by Australia and the third by
Alan Bond.
Freedom had beaten
Courageous and
Clipper to become the defender.
Australia had beaten
France III,
Lionheart and
Sverige to become the challenger.
John Edwin Bertrand AM (born 20 December 1946 in
Melbourne, Victoria) is a yachtsman from
Australia, who skippered
Australia II to victory in the 1983
America's Cup, ending 132 years of American supremacy. Bertrand won the bronze medal in the
Finn competition at the
1976 Summer Olympics in
Montreal. He is a member of
Royal Brighton Yacht Club in
Melbourne Australia, and currently competes in the
Etchells class boats. He has been married for many years to
Rasa Bertrand, whom he met as a student. When Turner was 26, he entered sailing competitions at the Savannah Yacht Club and competed in Olympic trials in 1964.He appeared on the cover of
Sports Illustrated on July 4, 1977, after being chosen to lead the
1977 America's Cup defense as
skipper of the yacht
Courageous.[49] He had purchased the boat after its 1974 America's Cup victory.On September 18, 1977, he successfully defended the
America's Cup, defeating Australia 4-0.He was inducted into the
America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1993,and the
National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2011. In the
1979 Fastnet race, in a storm that killed 15 participants, he skippered
Tenacious to a corrected-time victory. In order to ensure that racing tested the skill of the sailors more than the boat technology, criteria were dictated which competing boats had to meet in order to be qualified to race. From 1958 to 1987, the "12-Meter" Rule was used to ensure that similar designs competed for the America's Cup, while still encouraging yacht designers to balance several key design factors in order to produce the fastest boats possible.
Freedom was the last of the S&S twelves, successfully defending the America's Cup in 1980. The design was a winner - but the race is remembered for more than the victory. On the first of the five races of that contest, sailed in a shifting, 10 knot easterly,
Freedom suffered the indignity of having her rudder linkage break on the second windward leg. On the next downwind leg, lack of rudder control proved no large problem, as the skipper (Dennis Conner) could steer with the trim tab. But for the final upwind leg, it was necessary to try wrapping a line around the rudder post and leading this to a genoa winch. Steering by this winch device and the trim tab proved manageable but clumsy:
Freedom was forced to feather upwind and to make a major operation of each tack. Nevertheless, her crew performed these maneuvers with such skill that Conner, after winning the race, saw no need to mention the breakage. Instead, he dodged questions about why he had sailed the final leg the way he did, admitting only that his tactics had been 'unorthodox.' Thus developed a theory that the canny skipper was really holding
Freedom back in an effort to conceal her real speed."
Sparkman & Stephens is a
naval architecture company specialising in designing boats. Sparkman & Stephens Inc was formally created on November 11, 1929, with five partners: Drake Sparkman and his younger brother James Sparkman, James Murray, and brothers
Olin J. Stephens and
Roderick Stephen. Their designs have won most of the major international
yacht races such as the
America's Cup, for several decades, including a string of victories in the
Fastnet and
Sydney to Hobart races. S&S has a number of custom yacht design projects as well as being designers for boat builders such as
Nautor's Swan,
Grand Banks Yachts, and
Morris Yachts. With more than 100 units built, the S&S design #1710 also known as
Swan 36 became the most utilized design in the history of Sparkman & Stephe
