How & Why The America's Cup Began

[@QuicklierFilms]

Really well done piece of storytelling. And Steven Tsuchiya is a natural on camera. Looking forward to part 2.

[@jimmyboy2]

Brilliant doco 👏👏👏

[@toddwhelan8192]

Outstanding. Very pleasantly surprised how well this came together; I clicked before I realised what the topic was and nearly didn't continue, but very glad that I did👍

[@julianharms3598]

Great bit of video, thanks Matt. So great to have access to knowledgeable and insightful people on both sides of the story as well. Looking forward to part 2!

[@elektrolyte]

Absolutely brilliant production. Thank you for this fascinating insight

[@AlisonAZ]

Thank you for putting this together.

[@TomSnyder--theJaz]

Very well done, Matt. I'm looking forward to Part 2. Cheers

[@edumali7402]

I’ve read and watched so much history on the America’s Cup, this one has got to be the most riveting and full of new details. Cheers to Planet Sail. 🎉❤

[@cacoste]

Great Documentary about such challenging competition.

[@jonathanpaotama124]

Wow! Amazing analysis! Well done ol chap and team I am anxiously awaiting the next instalment of New Zealand’s cup sorry I mean America’s cup story! Who would of thought there was controversy even in the first instalment of the race! 😊

[@lawrencefalk8714]

Excellent journalism! Can't wait for Part II.

[@exvcator]

Really interesting programme Matt, well done. Can't wait for the next episode.

[@deckerbob]

Fantastic documentary

[@ianfirth-clark5975]

This is really good Matt can't wait for part 2

[@richardlawton1023]

When Lipton came to the states he raced out of the Bridgeport CT. He used the Bridgeport CT Algonquin club as his home base. At the end of the races he hosted a 14 course dinner. I re. Created the dinner at the Algonquin club in 88' I think. The Algonquin club may still have the menu, pictures of all attendees and other stuff.

[@bernieflynn4803]

Effin Brilliant!! Thank you for this Martin. Can't wait for Part 2.😊😅

[@notinmanitou]

Wonderful idea for a video! Thank you so much! Looking forward to part II.

[@scottwest6233]

Keep em’ coming! Thanks!

[@IlusioDiamondmask]

Great video! Thank you. Eagerly awaiting episode 2🙏

[@marcelokohler]

awesome!

[@ericbrown2655]

Dusting off my 1/4" scale model of the yacht "America" as I'm watching!

[@Orf45]

Fantastic work! Thank you.

[@scottwest6233]

Great video! Thanks!!

[@russkramer3265]

well done Steve!

[@doctormojo]

Well yes, well done NYYC, longest streak in sport etc etc. Only it isn't. Until 1956 there was a rule that all yachts had to sail to the venue from their home port, so any European challenger had be much more heavily built to withstand an Atlantic passage and include crew accommodation. The winning streak on a level playing field was really 27 years, or 8 races, from 1956 until the Australians won it in 1983.

[@ToniPfau]

@doctormojo Actually, you're wrong. The original rule, set down by the Royal Yacht Squadron was this: Design and build a yacht, sail it across the Atlantic ocean, and race against our entire fleet. If you win, you can have the cup. The New York Yacht Club applied to all challengers the same rule the America had originally sailed under, except they eventually dispensed with the "race against our entire fleet" part. It was only in 1956 that they let the challengers cheat and ship their boats to the competition.

[@bethvandereems8021]

Well done Steven!!

[@george1la]

The speeds are so high now with foiling and wing like sails with full controls. Technology again.

[@raggsailor]

Well done!

[@Cruising_Pamela_B]

I always chuckle when I hear it claimed that the AC is the oldest international sporting event. In fact, that honour belongs to the little known oddity of an event that morphed into the K A Auty Cup, which is the cricket competition between of all places - the United States - and Canada, first played 7 years prior the America’s win at Cowes. Like the AC it is still played between the two countries today. The AC ewer itself is older than the Auty - but not the competition.

[@elektrolyte]

so slavery was officially abolished in the USA in December 1865. The first America's Cup was held in 1851 (14 years before the abolition of slavery ) and the US yacht, America, clearly gained a technical advantage over the English yacht by carrying cotton sails instead of Flax sails. cotton was not really a sailing option because it was way more prone to rot and was generally weaker than the rot resistant flax sails of the English yacht... BUT it was much lighter, and only had to last as long as the race. It is most probably a certainty that America's cotton sails were made from 100% of cotton picked by African slaves.

[@ToniPfau]

@elektrolyte Actually, the cotton sails on the America had to sail across the Atlantic ocean before the competition, so they had to be pretty durable. Cotton sails were used on American ships to travel all over the world until Dacron came along in the 1950s. They worked well because they were durable and the best ones were made from particularly long and stiff staples that stretched less than other sailmaking materials. That's why they could be made flatter for better upwind work. That said, you don't appear to know any more about sailing than you do about the leftist politics that always has to inject ignorance and nonsense about racism and slavery into everything. You do know that Britain and the United States were among the first nations to outlaw slavery, don't you? You do know that there was significant opposition to slavery in both the U.S. and Britain even before the U.S. gained independence from Britain, that Somersett's case of 1772 influenced legal opinion on slavery both in Britain and the American colonies, don't you? You do know that during the early- to mid-1800s Britain spent the single largest portion of the annual budget on the navy, patrolling the seas to arrest slave ship, and that 18% of the foreign office budget pursued the end of the slave trade. Thousand of Royal Navy sailors died in the process of stopping the slave trade. You know that, right? And that the Democratic party in the United States was founded to promote the expansion of slavery. You know that, right? And when a Republican in the person of Abraham Lincoln was elected president on the platform of "putting slavery back on the path to eventual extinction," Democrats started the Civil War. You know that, right? And after Democrats lost the war they started, a Democrat murdered President Lincoln and Democrats started their Ku Klux Klan to terrorize the freed slaves and the Republicans who had freed them. You know that, right? And you know that, after Republicans had the army crush your Ku Klux Klan, Democrats started Jim Crow segregation. You know that, right? That every word, every punctuation mark, every smudge on the page of every Jim Crow law ever written were put there by Democrat legislators and signed by Democrat governors. And did you know that people are fed up with wokies with Cluster B personality disorders and low verbal IQ (check the science) injecting their woke nonsense into every freaking thing that comes a long. Just drop it, will you? Get a freaking life. Because you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

[@GEdluge]

nice video

[@wastinson]

Did Bluenose ever compete in the AC?

[@ToniPfau]

@wastinson Nope.

[@finaboykm]

Waiting for your thoughts on the failed crane that dropped NZ boat causing some damage. Dropping your laptop on the concrete floor will do some damage/ dropping a AC boat has to “shock” the computers systems within- bull in a China shop!

[@thomaskunz3726]

Cool content and GO ALINGHI :)

[@isaacstone7899]

Giant cup celebrations for beer or wine drink after winning the game.

[@Demun1649]

I've watched the whole video, and I am still completely in the dark! WHY DOES IT MATTER? AT ALL? Does it help anyone dying of cancer, or is homeless, or not working, or just made disabled?

[@stephensidaras7416]

I think America is in San Diego.

[@dap777754]

Replica.

[@jamiemorgan4146]

You’ve KILLED the Americas Cup! You’ve made it a Joke with these laughable flying trucks! Disgusting… Shame on all of you! 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@jumperstartful]

agree, take me back to the days of dennis conners.

[@Silvius.2]

Maybe was best to survive this cup when america was winning. Then this race was about exhibition and if english would winn then would be an one race about special circumstances? And we enjoy Americas cup today still..... What would be sports without british sportsman living?

[@ashentmariner]

🕊️ Good to know anyone is'sa allowed to start backwards ❤️ beautiful Piece 🌈 Gale oar Whale 🌎 ash'ent'm's Golden Bough (play ground: ~ )_@m ~ ~ Love float's `☮️

[@londonman8688]

shame that the americas cup has been ruined and now is effectively flying on water

[@dap777754]

That's right.

[@Silvius.2]

Why if first was named majesty cup and now still Americas cup 😉 After american winning was renamed.... why then not Aussie cup- New Zealand cup - swiss cup and on... Maybe and 🙏 sometimes cup is at starting waters again. Maybe for 200year jubilee 🫡 Now and hope next still is New Zealand kiwi cup😉😍.

[@edrcozonoking]

Because the cup itself belongs to america.

[@AlisonAZ]

Thank you for putting this together.