University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 21, 1987
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Kookaburra III wins a Cup berth
United Press International
FREMANTLE, Australia Kookaburra III led Australia IV yesterday from the start to finish, beating its rival by 55 seconds and clinching the America's Cup defender's berth for the challenge from Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes.
With a 5.0 sweep of the final best-of-nine series, Kookaburra III skipper Iain Murray shattered Alan Bond's $14 million campaign to protect the prize he won in 1983 by defeating Comer.
"In the end, there has to be one winner and one loser." Murray said after his golden-hulled yacht was towed on a victory circuit around Fishing Boat Harbor. "I'm glad we're the winners."
Conner, who spent $15 million in his quest to regain the Cup for the United States, clinched the challenger's title
Monday with a 1:29 victory over New Zealand's K77.
Kookaburra III will meet Stars & Stripes in a best-of-seven series beginning Jan. 31 to determine the America's Cup champion.
Bond, who earlier wowed to retire from Cup competition after this fifth quest, changed his mind as he watched rival Kevin Parry in his homequeen Australia IV for a huge 36-second ad攻age at the start gun.
"We brought the Cup here." Bond told Parry at a news conference after the race. "Don't you lose it. If you do, we'll get it back."
"The fact that you aren't good enough in the run-down to provide the competition is just a fact of life." Parry retorted.
Parry angrily accused Bond of exerting unnecessary pressure
Yesterday's race was over at the start with Pete Gilmour, starting
belmans for Kookaburra III, demonstrating flawless seamanship. He forced Australia IV above the race committee boat and gave it no option except to recircle. As the gun went off, Australia IV was still far from the starting line.
"I feel sad for them," Murray said of the Australia IV crew. "They worked hard but were stuck with a slow boat."
For business tycoon Parry, the victory over Bond climaxed an $18 million, three-year effort to prove the superiority of his golden-hulled yachts.
In the 12- to 14-knot wings on flat seas, Australia IV trailed around every mark of the 24.1-mile Indian Ocean course.
The green and yellow boxing kangaroo flag that came to symbolize Bond's 1983 triumph over Connell in the 1976 USA Open United States 132 year domination of
the trophy, succumbed to Parry's emblem, a yellowookaburra, the laughing bird of the Australian bush
Co-designer of the Kookaburra, Murray must decide which of the golden-hulled boats — Kookaburra II or Kookaburra III — he will sail against Conner, the world's most experienced 12-meter helmsman.
The Parry syndicate, planning on changing Kookaburra II's keel to match the might of Stars & Stripes, also has an improved boat proves faster in speed trials.
It was the breakthrough winged keel on Australia II that gave Bond's boat the edge in 1983. Yachting observers noted with irony that it was the wings on Australia IV that rendered the 12-meter ineffective in the finals, losing by margins of 1:34, 1:46, 2:06, 1:13 and 0:55.
"We went out there to do the best we could." Australia IV's skipper Colin Beasel said.
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