America's Cup - The Freo Files: Blackaller's Bet



6:36 PM Mon 21 Feb 2011 GMT
'Tom Blackaller: one of the great characters of sailing'
Most have fond memories of the 1987 America's Cup in Fremantle. It had everything - big breeze, drama, action on the water and ashore, and a lot of larger than life characters who really bought that series to life. One of those characters was Tom Blackaller who sailed the canard ruddered USA out of San Francisco. In this series of clips from TVNZ's coverage of the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup, we take you through a bet taken on the outcome of the eliminations for the semi-finals. A feature of the Challenger Series in particular were the media conferences, which took ...


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