Steve Clark looks to retake Little America's Cup



9:44 PM Thu 5 Aug 2010 GMT
'Steve Clark's Aethon will be among seven speed machines competing at the Little America's Cup later this month. - Little America’s Cup' New York Yacht Club &copy Click Here to view large photo
Steve Clark has been dreaming of winning back the Little America's Cup for the USA ever since he lost it to Canada in 2007. In 1996, Clark's 25- foot C-Class Catamaran Cogito (pronounced with a soft g) had blown away designers and engineers with its mammoth wing sail and unmatchable speed, and with helmsman Duncan MacLane and crew Erich Chase it handily defeated Australia's defender Edge IV on Port Phillip Bay to win the International C-Class Catamaran Championship, fondly referred to as the Little America's Cup. Cogito became and remained the gold standard of C-Class Catamarans for the next eleven ...


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by Barby MacGowan




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