America’s Cup Build-up
Team NZ captain Dean Barker beat ex-boss Russell Coutts 3-0 in the Swedish Match Cup finals. Coutts is heading Alinghi, Switzerland’s America’s Cup challenger. In other Cup news, Team New Zealand launch the first of their new generation of racing yachts (NZL81) and Dennis Connor’s newest yacht – Stars & Stripes – sank a mile offshore from Long Beach, California.