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I've never met a world champion
that's a normal person.
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You gotta be screwed up in some manner
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to get out of bed
to do extraordinary things.
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And I'm screwed up.
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Underneath this veneer
of being a normal, nice guy,
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I have a huge ego.
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There's gotta be some motivation
to drive someone to extraordinary lengths.
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And the ego is part of my drive.
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Good morning, the world.
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We're lining up now for the start
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of the seventh and vital race
in this America's Cup.
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Yachting's big event is more historic
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than the Kentucky Derby,
the World Series or the Super Bowl.
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And for the first time in 132 years,
America may lose the America's Cup.
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Now, the whole point of this
was to win the America's Cup,
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which no one had ever done before.
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It was the longest winning streak
in history of sport.
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The United States
having successfully defended the Cup
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for 132 years,
since before the US Civil War.
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This country's domination
has outlasted the Confederacy,
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the Third Reich, and the St. Louis Browns.
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Now the Australians think
their time finally has come.
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Today they sail the winner-take-all,
do-or-die, there's-no-tomorrow race.
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Billed as the race of the century--
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The greatest yacht race of the century.
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The bottom line is the New York Yacht Club
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were not in the business
of losing the America's Cup.
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So we had no confusion.
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We were at war.
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The full-scale war is already underway.
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The Australians claim they're
the target of a dirty-tricks campaign
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involving espionage
and political backstabbing.
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We now have the FBI involved,
spies, armed guards.
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The New York Yacht Club
are absolutely determined
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to do everything possible to ensure
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that the Cup stays here
in the United States.
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To take on the United States
was a huge psychological mountain.
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The most powerful nation technically
and economically in the world…
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-…and a little country…
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with 27 million people called Australia…
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…had the audacity to think
that we could do it.
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The first America's Cup that I'd heard
was the 1962 America's Cup.
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Australia versus United States.
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How this country was tuned into this event
halfway around the world.
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These races have captured
the imagination of millions.
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The President of the United States himself
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abandons the cares of Washington
to attend.
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The Australians, if they win,
see it as an opportunity
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to project their little-known country
onto the international stage.
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I can… I can still hear it.
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Winds 20 to 25 knots and seas choppy…
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I was just a little boy
listening on the wireless.
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I was seven years old
listening to a small transistor radio,
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lying in bed in the middle of the night.
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A little tiny transistor radio.
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Like a little transistor radio.
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My mother said,
"You get a good night's sleep,"
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and I'm trying to listen to the radio.
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…all over
the eastern seaboard
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flock to the waters of Newport,
Rhode Island.
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Three in the morning,
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12 hours different time zone
in Newport, Rhode Island.
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This is Newport,
the home of the America's Cup yacht race.
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Since the turn of the century,
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it's been the holiday playground
of the nation's super rich.
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As a little boy, I was infatuated
with the incredible history.
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All these incredible characters.
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And when the summer breezes
begin to roll in across the sound,
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their minds turn
to the only game in town, yacht racing.
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For me to skipper an America's Cup boat,
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that set my imagination
into another direction.
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It was like the door opening
to another world.
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There are some people at Internal Revenue
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who think yachting is not much more
than a dubious tax deduction.
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The America's Cup, however,
is something else again.
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The America's Cup's always been
the top echelon of the sport of sailing.
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The America's Cup
is one boat versus one boat,
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one country versus one country.
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The best of seven races.
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First boat to win four races
wins the America's Cup.
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It's one-on-one.
It's like a duel to the death.
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Look at it go down!
This is yachting's answer to the Titanic.
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They basically have a desire
to beat each other's brains out,
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but it's a lot better than going to war
or shooting it out in the streets.
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The unique element of the America's Cup
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is you're given a shot every four years,
just like the Olympics.
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It's a huge commitment,
both physically and psychologically.
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The rules were any country
could challenge for the America's Cup,
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but you had to design the boat
in the country you were challenging from.
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You had to build the boat
in that country as well.
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So these projects need money.
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Lots of money.
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The super-rich have brought
large bank accounts, millions of dollars.
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In the case of the America's Cup,
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we're talking high-cost,
high-tech yacht racing.
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Unlike any other sport,
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the US had never lost.
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It was the longest winning streak
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in sporting history
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where the New York Yacht Club
had successfully defended the Cup
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in Newport, Rhode Island, for 132 years.
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There was a sense of arrogance
by the New York Yacht Club.
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This is our patch.
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You can play with the patch
and then we'll bid you farewell.
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The New York Yacht Club
have defended this Cup
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against all-comers from around the world
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with such complete sailing mastery
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that it's a wonder
anyone comes after it at all.
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The New York Yacht Club
on Manhattan's West 44th Street.
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With its windows carved in the manner
of a 17th century Dutch yacht,
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this is the center
of the yachting universe.
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The exclusive preserve
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of some of America's wealthiest
and most influential men.
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The New York Yacht club were
ferocious defenders of the America's Cup.
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They reeked of old American money,
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Vanderbilts and Roosevelts.
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So there was a huge amount of mystique.
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And there was something
about the American boats.
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They had this aura about them.
They were immaculate.
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Their sails always looked like
they were carved out of alabaster.
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They oozed style, wealth.
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Oozed this unbeatableness.
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And one day, way back in 1970,
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we go into the New York Yacht Club.
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And there was a room,
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it was this kind of octagonal room
where the Cup was sitting.
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We spoke to the curator,
and he said, "You realize, John,
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that that trophy had not been touched
by human flesh for a hundred years."
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I looked at this trophy and I thought,
"My God, John, this is it."
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Perfect, shiny silver.
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The Holy Grail.
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This is the family jewel.
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Silver under glass.
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This is what the Americans are spending
$45 million on this year alone.
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Now, legend has it
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that the first American skipper
to end up losing this Cup
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will end up losing his head.
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There's no question the emerging force
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for the New York Yacht Club
was Dennis Conner.
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A native of San Diego, California,
folks, please welcome Dennis Conner.
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He was the might and focus
of the New York Yacht Club.
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And he took the America's Cup
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from an amateur world
to a professional world.
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Dennis changed the game.
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But isn't it true
that you've taken a sport
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that was, uh, previously considered
kind of what wealthy guys did on weekends,
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and turned it into
more like stock car racing?
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Dennis was the best. He was the best.
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Ah, he's brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
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I think it's fair to say
Dennis was a different person.
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One of these skippers
who will do anything to win.
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If the most important thing in the world
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was winning the America's Cup
and sailing with Dennis Conner,
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over going to church,
over your job, over your wife, your kids…
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"Oh, I gotta take off
for two weeks to go skiing."
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Well, enjoy your skiing,
but don't bother coming back.
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The first time I raced against Dennis
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was 1974, the America's Cup.
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And we had no chance.
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The Australians, they weren't
in the America's Cup business.
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Psychologically, you have to perform
at a very high level.
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You got down to the boat early
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and checked the weather,
tide, current, sailing instructions,
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got your boat in the water,
made sure it was smooth and clean,
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getting out to the course
and checking the wind,
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current, and the race committee
and getting instructions,
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and checking the wind before the start,
which way it was shifting.
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You had the right sails, the right mast.
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You'd practiced.
Your crew weighed the right amount.
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If you did all those things, every time,
you would then have no excuse to lose.
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Lambs to the slaughter each time.
Hammered in '74.
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Dennis Conner came through
for America again today,
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winning the race
by more than a minute and a half.
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Got hammered again in '77.
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The experts said it'd be 4 and 0,
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and they've done in the Australians
four races to zero.
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Went back again in 1980, got beaten again.
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And Australia simply couldn't catch up
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and has now failed in three attempts
to win the America's Cup.
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I won 38 straight races.
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I was the best sailor in the world.
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I slaughtered them.
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Welcome back to Turpie Tonight.
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Ah! What a cue!
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I want you to listen carefully to this.
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In September 1983,
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someone will be challenging the Americans
for the America's Cup,
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and this man will be skipper.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
would you please welcome John Bertrand?
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Deep down,
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I knew if there's anyone
that can actually take on Dennis Conner,
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it was someone like myself.
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How long have you been sailing?
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I started when I was 12 years old.
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-What type or class of yacht?
-Little Sabots, little trainers.
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Yeah?
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My great-grandfather
was involved in the construction
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of three America's Cup boats.
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My grandfather was
a professional fisherman,
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and he'd teach me
when the sea breeze would come in.
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He'd have this intuitive sixth sense
that was passed on to myself.
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No makeup. Is that what you get
from life on the ocean waves?
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It's hours in the sun, Ian.
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Hours and hours.
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Is this a hard life?
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But when I was 15,
there was a shock to our family.
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My father died,
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my grandfather died,
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and then my great-grandfather died,
in sequence.
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So we lost all the men.
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Um…
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When John's father passed away,
there was a call in him.
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It, in fact, was
what has always driven him.
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But what I really understood about John
was his ability to really focus.
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He could totally shut off.
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I was infatuated
with winning the America's Cup
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and what was required.
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Hopefully, you'll be the one to challenge
whatever yacht the Americans put up.
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That's right. Dennis Conner is
the skipper of the one boat,
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which he successfully defended last time.
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-Boo!
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-Didn't like him much.
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Every year losing to Dennis,
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I concluded that
I wasn't mentally tough enough.
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And unless you understood
your competition,
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unless you understood the enemy,
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you could never actually take it
to another level.
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So I got a scholarship to MIT in Boston
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in the Department of Ocean Engineering
to become part of the US system.
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During this program,
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you'll be training
for careers in marine engineering.
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There will be lab work, sea projects,
and plenty of difficult classwork.
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When he told me
the name of his thesis,
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I think, by then, I really understood
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how important sailing was to him.
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Optimum Angle of Attack
of America's Cup Sails.
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Using lifting-line theory,
aerospace engineering,
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highly technical control systems,
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basically torpedoes.
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I was behind enemy lines for months…
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learning about secrets.
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That was very applicable
to the America's Cup challenge.
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So, after MIT, I knew enough
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that we could go head-to-head,
toe-to-toe with the best in the world.
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Come on, Kyle.
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To compete,
you have to have the money.
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I just said,
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"When you want to race the America's Cup,
show me the money."
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I guess it's fair to say that estimates
about how much money
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has been spent to win this baby
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are anywhere between 60
and maybe 100 million dollars.
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I was lucky.
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I had the backing
of the New York Yacht Club.
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I loved them like Mom and Dad.
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So you get the money,
then you can start to put a team together.
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Conner is putting his troops
through a training program
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as tough as any yet devised
for an America's Cup campaign.
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It's important that the crew
be able to perform at their best,
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and to do so,
they have to have a full commitment,
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working- 00 in the morning till- 00
at night, six days a week for 17 months.
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So the more money,
you can start to invest in technology.
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Then you can start thinking about,
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"What kind of a designer
are we going to have?"
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"Who's gonna build the boat?
Who's gonna make the sails?"
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The New York Yacht Club
calls to order the first meeting…
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Studying the New York Yacht Club,
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I realize if we're ever to win this thing,
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we would need money, lots of money.
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The story of the America's challenge
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is the story
of the whole Bond financial saga.
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Bondy has always been a gambler,
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and that's what this is all about, money.
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Alan was the syndicate chairman
for Australia.
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He took a gamble.
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It was his money.
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It was his project.
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Bondy was a big risk-taker.
Larger than life.
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He'd made a lot of money
in a short amount of time,
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largely through property deals.
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And he bought Swan Brewery.
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But from the New York Yacht Club's
point of view, he wasn't real wealth.
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Alan intuitively knew
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to win could take him
from a local trader to a global trader.
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It was power and influence,
and that was his motivation.
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So, I said to Alan,
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"There's basically
three elements in this competition."
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"You gotta have
world-class administration."
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"You gotta have world-class technology,
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and, ultimately,
the team has to be world-class."
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We needed to get brilliant,
highly sophisticated minds.
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Invite the best of the best.
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So I called Huey.
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Got an apprenticeship
and I left school as a sailmaker.
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I can see wind shifts and wind pressure.
Just could almost smell the wind.
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…and outstanding tactician Hugh Treharne
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join other senior members
of the Australian team.
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Is this the year of the impossible?
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I was working as an engineer
on a uranium mine.
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I was actually a school teacher
at the time.
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I was working as an electrical engineer.
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And I get a phone call
out of the blue saying,
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"I'd like you to be the navigator
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on this 12 Metre we're gonna build
for the next America's Cup."
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I hadn't been a navigator on any boat.
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He said, "You're an engineer.
You go and figure it out."
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John Bertrand very carefully worked out
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the people with the right mental capacity,
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who could outsmart
the New York Yacht Club.
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To take on the power
of the American psyche,
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with their immense confidence,
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you need a strong ego
to be able to play that game,
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and that was a major hurdle.
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In our country, in Australia,
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we have this thing
called the Tall Poppy Syndrome,
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where people start to show a sense
of confidence, and they cut you down.
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So, if I could get
the mental side tough enough,
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then perhaps I could put
the whole thing together.
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Bertrand sent this psych test out
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to all of the potential crew members.
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And I can remember
getting this 14-page psych test
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and thinking, "What is this crap?"
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Yeah. I did the personality test.
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The assessment was
that I could have more confidence.
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That was the assessment, yeah,
that I could have more confidence.
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So for us, we had to believe ourselves
that we belong on the world stage.
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That's the power of visualization.
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See the sails, see fellow crew members,
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realize the trust, faith, and respect
you have for them.
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You're visualizing the environment
even before you've gone into battle.
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Ultimately, training the mind
not to be intimidated in that environment.
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Listen to the helicopters above.
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-You see the US Coast Guard.
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We're all working
hand in hand together as a team.
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And then you see Dennis Conner…
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and his American boat, Liberty.
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And finally,
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the last thing we had to have
was the high-tech, world-class boat.
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But the American sailing technology
was at a much higher level
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than anything we had in Australia.
342
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The battle of the Cup
has become a war of technology,
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and Conner had wanted to build himself
a fearsome weapon.
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So he went to the heavily-guarded
US Government weapons research center.
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Right now we have
naval architects involved.
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As a matter of fact, we have,
at the hub of our campaign,
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basically a subcontractor
from the Department of Defense.
348
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,800
Dennis had US Navy
and aerospace technology.
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And he had big design teams,
like nearly 30 guys,
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but those days we just had Benny.
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We had Benny. That was it.
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Seen here
is the barefoot Australian, Ben Lexcen.
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He's Alan Bond's unlikely choice
to design his yacht
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00:24:05,235 --> 00:24:08,071
for the upcoming 1983 America's Cup.
355
00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:12,826
But where many designers live
in a world full of calculus and geometry,
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Ben Lexcen lives in a world of art.
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Yacht design is still an art.
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It's probably one of the only arts left
where the artist has to prove his work
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00:24:23,879 --> 00:24:25,714
by actual performance.
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00:24:25,797 --> 00:24:27,132
Benny was different.
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He was not constrained in a box.
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00:24:31,094 --> 00:24:34,306
Brilliant and dangerous in so many ways.
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He was the Leonardo da Vinci of Australia.
364
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Only three years of formal education,
nine years old to twelve years old.
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00:24:49,779 --> 00:24:52,115
So he wasn't restricted in his thinking.
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That was his strength, as it turns out.
367
00:24:57,787 --> 00:25:00,874
Ben's one
of these really unique people in the world
368
00:25:00,957 --> 00:25:05,629
who comes from an incredible background
of hardly any formal schooling at all.
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He was almost a street person in a way.
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00:25:13,136 --> 00:25:14,346
Benny would just arrive
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and stay with us
for two nights, two weeks,
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and he was physically very awkward.
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He had a very severe tic,
but he was curious.
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00:25:27,734 --> 00:25:30,779
He was a passionately curious man.
375
00:25:31,738 --> 00:25:36,868
And we've moved the rig slightly, so, uh…
The boat feels really nice.
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00:25:36,952 --> 00:25:41,581
His genius was
to be able to absorb information.
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00:25:42,874 --> 00:25:44,459
He's like a honeyeater.
378
00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:47,712
He'd just pick, pick, pick, pick, pick,
pick, pick, pick and bring all this in.
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00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:51,841
So when Benny started to design the yacht,
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00:25:51,925 --> 00:25:56,096
I was sitting on the dock,
and he said, "John, look at the seagulls."
381
00:25:57,097 --> 00:26:00,517
He said, "Every feather,
there's a flight control system."
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00:26:01,268 --> 00:26:03,770
He said, "There must be
a thousand control systems
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00:26:03,853 --> 00:26:05,772
in one wing of that bird."
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00:26:07,148 --> 00:26:10,819
He said, "Look at how they take off.
It's just one flip and they're gone."
385
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:13,446
"It's beautiful."
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00:26:15,490 --> 00:26:17,492
He was a student of nature.
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00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,247
And I had very little understanding
of where it could lead,
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00:26:22,956 --> 00:26:24,499
but the door was opened.
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00:26:28,253 --> 00:26:32,632
Benny had gone across to Holland
to try and design a 12 Metre
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00:26:32,716 --> 00:26:35,302
that was gonna be better
than the 12 Metre that we had in 1980.
391
00:26:36,678 --> 00:26:39,973
Benny was at one of the biggest
towing tank facilities in the world
392
00:26:40,056 --> 00:26:43,059
trying to get another one hundredth
of one knot out of the boat.
393
00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:48,315
He was tearing his hair out trying to find
an improvement, and he just couldn't.
394
00:26:49,107 --> 00:26:51,151
He was enormously frustrated,
395
00:26:52,777 --> 00:26:56,239
and suddenly
we started getting these telexes…
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00:26:59,367 --> 00:27:02,370
where he said,
"Hang on. We're onto something here."
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00:27:05,582 --> 00:27:08,835
Every day we'd get back to the office
and there'd be another telex
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00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:11,588
with him getting more and more excited.
399
00:27:13,048 --> 00:27:17,886
He said, "I'm developing a keel here
that could potentially be a breakthrough."
400
00:27:21,097 --> 00:27:22,807
But he didn't actually tell us
what it was.
401
00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:26,936
Lexcen's seven models
underwent test trials
402
00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:30,357
in minute detail in at least 200 runs,
403
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,194
which allowed the designer to make
constant refinements to his secret keel.
404
00:27:35,737 --> 00:27:39,199
So the call came through
to come across to see this model
405
00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:41,451
that he created
with this funny-looking keel.
406
00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:47,415
So, I knew there was
something special going on with the keel.
407
00:27:47,499 --> 00:27:51,294
Benny said, "Okay, you can come over,
but you can't tell anyone."
408
00:27:51,378 --> 00:27:55,173
It was under covers, and John Bertrand
took me in to have a look.
409
00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:59,469
There, sitting in the foundry
on the sand, was this thing.
410
00:28:02,639 --> 00:28:04,516
And I think I was speechless.
411
00:28:05,725 --> 00:28:07,310
Just trying to take it all in.
412
00:28:07,394 --> 00:28:10,855
I'm looking at this thing going,
"You can't be serious."
413
00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:15,527
I didn't know what to think
because it looked a bit weird.
414
00:28:17,070 --> 00:28:20,156
People have been designing
12 Metres since 1905.
415
00:28:21,491 --> 00:28:22,701
This is so different.
416
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:25,495
How can it be right?
417
00:28:25,578 --> 00:28:28,248
I knew that the keel was inverted.
418
00:28:28,331 --> 00:28:29,749
It was upside down.
419
00:28:42,262 --> 00:28:46,015
It was like someone designed a new car.
Looked like it's got wheels on the roof.
420
00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:53,857
It became clear
Benny had been playing around with wings.
421
00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:56,860
It's like a bird with wings on it. Okay?
422
00:28:59,487 --> 00:29:01,990
And that became
the outrageous winged keel.
423
00:29:04,325 --> 00:29:06,411
We knew the boat was high risk.
424
00:29:07,537 --> 00:29:11,708
And John, who's technically
one of the great sailors,
425
00:29:11,791 --> 00:29:13,209
was a little nervous about it.
426
00:29:13,293 --> 00:29:14,711
The last thing I wanted to do
427
00:29:14,794 --> 00:29:17,672
is to spend a huge amount
of my time, effort, and emotion
428
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:20,425
on something where the equipment
was never gonna cut it.
429
00:29:20,925 --> 00:29:22,886
We didn't even know
it was gonna sail like a yacht.
430
00:29:24,387 --> 00:29:29,058
When I showed our boat,
they all thought I'd gone off my rocker.
431
00:29:29,142 --> 00:29:32,562
So we decided we were going to have
a big meeting with Alan Bond.
432
00:29:34,189 --> 00:29:38,985
"So, Alan, Benny's come up
with a boat that is very, very different."
433
00:29:39,068 --> 00:29:43,615
"But the tank says it's 20 minutes faster
around the track than this one."
434
00:29:43,698 --> 00:29:46,868
"What are we going to do?"
And Alan said, "Right."
435
00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:50,830
"Well, we're gonna build that one.
Otherwise, you're all fired."
436
00:29:50,914 --> 00:29:53,625
So we just went ahead and built that boat.
437
00:30:03,218 --> 00:30:06,095
This is where
Ben Lexcen's latest winged wonder
438
00:30:06,179 --> 00:30:11,100
will have its fiery birth in a vat
of molten lead in North Fremantle.
439
00:30:12,685 --> 00:30:15,396
So many years
of getting hammered by the Americans.
440
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,775
It was time
that we had to do something radical.
441
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,574
Skippy and I were involved
in building the boat.
442
00:30:27,158 --> 00:30:28,868
You know, literally hands-on.
443
00:30:34,165 --> 00:30:38,211
Everyone was covered in gray
from grinding and cutting aluminum.
444
00:30:44,092 --> 00:30:47,178
Benny Lexcen and I
designed the deck layout together.
445
00:30:48,513 --> 00:30:51,099
And I was in charge of everything
from the deck up.
446
00:30:52,433 --> 00:30:56,479
We actually threw the rule book out
in terms of how sails will be made.
447
00:30:58,064 --> 00:31:01,901
And we developed the software
to design the sails.
448
00:31:04,737 --> 00:31:06,114
Totally revolutionary.
449
00:31:07,615 --> 00:31:10,285
We would take risks
and broke a lot of stuff
450
00:31:10,368 --> 00:31:13,663
because Benny was experimenting
as he was building stuff.
451
00:31:13,746 --> 00:31:15,373
That's how he was, you know.
452
00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:18,334
You'd say, "Well, that guy's crazy."
453
00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:22,422
Well, yes, he was, but we're all crazy.
It's all part of the deal.
454
00:31:22,505 --> 00:31:25,300
We sat down with designer Ben Lexcen
455
00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:28,761
and talked about his partnership
with team owner Alan Bond.
456
00:31:28,845 --> 00:31:32,599
I'm not under any pressure
of time or money,
457
00:31:32,682 --> 00:31:35,852
and he appreciates my style of thinking,
458
00:31:35,935 --> 00:31:39,689
and he more or less lets me
just wander along like I'm an inventor.
459
00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:47,113
Alan Bond's new 12 Metre
was officially named in the ceremony
460
00:31:47,196 --> 00:31:49,741
before thousands of spectators
in Perth today.
461
00:31:50,366 --> 00:31:52,368
A supremely confident Alan Bond
462
00:31:52,452 --> 00:31:53,536
told a news conference today
463
00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:55,955
that Australia II would win
the America's Cup.
464
00:31:57,123 --> 00:32:02,587
The construction of this yacht
first began with Ben Lexcen, the designer.
465
00:32:03,546 --> 00:32:08,426
We've worked over two years
on a truly Australian effort.
466
00:32:08,509 --> 00:32:10,094
For the first time,
467
00:32:10,178 --> 00:32:15,016
we have been able to develop
equal to anything else the world will see.
468
00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:24,734
Three cheers… Hip-hip hooray!
469
00:32:37,580 --> 00:32:40,375
Four minutes before00
on Newport Radio WADK,
470
00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:44,003
the official radio station
of the 1983 America's Cup.
471
00:32:44,087 --> 00:32:45,380
Speaking of which,
472
00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:47,298
the successful 1980 defender,
Dennis Conner,
473
00:32:47,382 --> 00:32:48,883
and Liberty, a brand-new 12,
474
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:51,594
has made her arrival
in Newport Harbor today.
475
00:32:54,263 --> 00:32:57,433
Dennis Conner,
the incumbent America's Cup defender,
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00:32:57,517 --> 00:33:02,188
a solitary man with a single focus,
to win again in 1983.
477
00:33:03,773 --> 00:33:06,651
On behalf of AT&T,
we're proud to, uh, be a sponsor
478
00:33:06,734 --> 00:33:08,194
in defense of the America's Cup.
479
00:33:08,277 --> 00:33:11,030
And let me just add one other thing.
Go get 'em, Dennis!
480
00:33:11,114 --> 00:33:12,782
-All right!
-Tomorrow!
481
00:33:13,449 --> 00:33:16,077
This Tuesday,
they will begin running the competition
482
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,414
for the most coveted sailing prize,
the America's Cup.
483
00:33:20,957 --> 00:33:24,085
Now, the America's Cup
is a Challenger Series,
484
00:33:25,086 --> 00:33:27,588
52 races against all the other countries,
485
00:33:28,297 --> 00:33:30,299
four-and-a-half months in Newport,
486
00:33:31,467 --> 00:33:34,846
for the right to race
against the Americans in September.
487
00:33:37,765 --> 00:33:39,392
There was a time here in New England
488
00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:42,478
when the words "The British are coming"
rang out loud and clear.
489
00:33:42,562 --> 00:33:45,815
But during this summer of 1983
here in Newport,
490
00:33:45,898 --> 00:33:47,608
it's not only the British who are coming,
491
00:33:47,692 --> 00:33:51,320
but it's also the French,
the Canadians, the Italians,
492
00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:52,655
and the Australians.
493
00:33:56,534 --> 00:33:59,704
When we first got to Newport
for the Challenger Races,
494
00:34:00,413 --> 00:34:01,664
we talked about the keel.
495
00:34:02,623 --> 00:34:04,959
And we decided we'd hide it completely.
496
00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:10,923
The last thing we want to do
is show the keel to the world,
497
00:34:11,007 --> 00:34:13,634
so that someone else could copy it,
and put it on their boat,
498
00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:15,636
and be as competitive as what we were.
499
00:34:16,929 --> 00:34:18,890
So, we kept it hidden.
500
00:34:20,308 --> 00:34:22,977
And I remember
there was a local newspaper.
501
00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:26,731
It said, "The Australians have come
with some bizarre, stupid keel."
502
00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:29,567
"These guys have finally lost it."
503
00:34:29,650 --> 00:34:31,861
"They've lost three times,
and they're getting desperate."
504
00:34:31,944 --> 00:34:33,237
That was the attitude of it.
505
00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:40,369
Starting leg of the America's Cup course
is into the wind,
506
00:34:40,453 --> 00:34:45,374
four-and-a-half miles long to this mark,
followed by two reaching legs.
507
00:34:45,458 --> 00:34:48,169
Then the yachts turn
one more time to the port,
508
00:34:48,252 --> 00:34:50,880
finishing once more into the wind.
509
00:34:50,963 --> 00:34:52,548
So we entered the first races
510
00:34:52,632 --> 00:34:55,468
of the elimination series
against the Italians,
511
00:34:55,551 --> 00:34:59,222
with the unknown
of just how competitive our package was.
512
00:35:00,223 --> 00:35:01,849
This radical boat,
513
00:35:01,933 --> 00:35:04,352
you're either gonna hit a home run
or you're not.
514
00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:07,522
We were either going to be
heroes or idiots.
515
00:35:07,605 --> 00:35:13,694
- Five, four, three, two, one.
516
00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:17,740
Australia has turned the mark
517
00:35:17,824 --> 00:35:20,159
and is absolutely flying downwind.
518
00:35:20,243 --> 00:35:22,328
All the work that we had done in Australia
519
00:35:22,411 --> 00:35:24,122
had paid huge dividends.
520
00:35:24,205 --> 00:35:26,415
Australia II has won.
521
00:35:26,499 --> 00:35:29,794
You can see Australia II.
She's just crossed the finishing line.
522
00:35:29,877 --> 00:35:31,921
And we came out all guns blazing.
523
00:35:33,464 --> 00:35:36,467
We were no longer overawed by Newport.
524
00:35:36,551 --> 00:35:39,846
We were just angry.
We were there for one reason, to win.
525
00:35:40,513 --> 00:35:43,182
The time is30 a.m. on a Sunday morning,
526
00:35:43,266 --> 00:35:45,935
and the Australia II crew
is already hard at work.
527
00:35:48,938 --> 00:35:51,983
We would run,
we'd do weights, we'd do aerobics.
528
00:35:52,066 --> 00:35:55,736
It was not only
a part of getting fit and getting strong.
529
00:35:55,820 --> 00:35:58,114
It was also about sending a message.
530
00:35:58,197 --> 00:36:00,616
Good morning, Australia!
531
00:36:01,534 --> 00:36:04,453
Now it was only until
we started to win races
532
00:36:05,037 --> 00:36:06,622
that our credibility increased.
533
00:36:07,957 --> 00:36:09,917
In the America's Cup preliminaries,
534
00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:12,461
all signs are pointing
to Alan Bond's Australia II
535
00:36:12,545 --> 00:36:13,838
as the boat to beat.
536
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:17,508
We beat the Italians,
crushed the Canadians.
537
00:36:18,759 --> 00:36:20,136
After today's race,
538
00:36:20,219 --> 00:36:23,639
it seems nothing can tack faster
or point higher into the wind
539
00:36:23,723 --> 00:36:25,766
than Ben Lexcen's radical 12 Metre.
540
00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:28,811
While few people
have actually seen this mysterious keel,
541
00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:32,315
almost everyone here
has seen the boat racing and winning.
542
00:36:32,398 --> 00:36:34,442
Australia II, by some…
543
00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:38,321
Then, suddenly,
"Why are they so competitive?"
544
00:36:40,364 --> 00:36:43,993
What is that beneath the hull
of the Australia II?
545
00:36:44,076 --> 00:36:46,996
A keel, but what kind of a keel?
546
00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:49,832
It's this summer's mystery at Newport.
547
00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:53,044
The boat was covered.
It was always secret.
548
00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:57,548
And that started to drive
some of the observers crazy.
549
00:36:57,632 --> 00:37:00,051
The big question here, Bryant,
this morning, is
550
00:37:00,134 --> 00:37:01,719
what do the Aussies have on their bottom?
551
00:37:01,802 --> 00:37:04,472
Between us, can you tell me
what that keel is?
552
00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:07,433
Between us, Mort, I can't tell you, no.
553
00:37:08,017 --> 00:37:10,770
Armed guards
patrol this place around the clock.
554
00:37:10,853 --> 00:37:13,105
Their job is to protect Australia II,
555
00:37:13,189 --> 00:37:16,609
the yacht that may very well succeed
in making sporting history.
556
00:37:18,361 --> 00:37:20,404
Australia's designer, Ben Lexcen,
557
00:37:20,488 --> 00:37:23,282
he's something
of a reluctant superstar here,
558
00:37:23,950 --> 00:37:26,244
but they all want to know about his keel.
559
00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:28,871
-Let's see the keel!
-Where's the keel, Benny?
560
00:37:28,955 --> 00:37:32,792
Ben Lexcen decided that he'd draw up
a sketch of the winged keel,
561
00:37:33,376 --> 00:37:36,462
and he made it totally different
than what it really was.
562
00:37:36,963 --> 00:37:40,258
The office at Newport Offshore
had a photocopier,
563
00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:44,262
so Ben went over with this sheet of paper
and put it on their photocopier.
564
00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:49,976
Comes flying back into the office
ten minutes later and says, "Guys!"
565
00:37:50,059 --> 00:37:53,771
"I've left… I've left a drawing of my keel
in your photocopier."
566
00:37:53,854 --> 00:37:58,818
By that afternoon, there were copies
all over Newport of our fake keel.
567
00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:04,782
Then opposition boats put winglets
on the bottom of their keels.
568
00:38:04,865 --> 00:38:07,451
Australia's keel has so impressed everyone
569
00:38:07,535 --> 00:38:10,413
that the British have put wings
on the keel of Victory.
570
00:38:10,496 --> 00:38:14,208
We'd go around and check them and say,
"No, it's little a bit different to that."
571
00:38:14,292 --> 00:38:17,044
"You gotta try and do it this way."
You know?
572
00:38:18,462 --> 00:38:21,799
One of the Americans drew that
and says there's their design.
573
00:38:21,882 --> 00:38:23,134
That's their secret keel.
574
00:38:23,217 --> 00:38:25,553
Is that it? What do you think? Is that…
575
00:38:26,429 --> 00:38:27,722
Could be. Could be.
576
00:38:29,181 --> 00:38:31,100
Australia II has won!
577
00:38:31,183 --> 00:38:36,147
The West Australians now have
an incredible 45 wins from 51 starts,
578
00:38:36,230 --> 00:38:39,942
and that just happens to be
the best record in 12 Metre history.
579
00:38:41,777 --> 00:38:44,572
And in the end,
we won the Challenger Series.
580
00:38:44,655 --> 00:38:45,781
We won by a lot.
581
00:38:46,657 --> 00:38:49,994
And so that's the boat race
and the Challenge Series.
582
00:38:50,077 --> 00:38:54,206
Australia goes on to race Liberty
for the America's Cup.
583
00:39:06,594 --> 00:39:09,138
The Australians are
the official 25th challengers
584
00:39:09,221 --> 00:39:10,723
for the America's Cup,
585
00:39:10,806 --> 00:39:12,600
and their incredible winning record
586
00:39:12,683 --> 00:39:15,061
really has
the New York Yacht Club worried.
587
00:39:16,771 --> 00:39:18,689
The man
who won the Cup last time
588
00:39:18,773 --> 00:39:20,733
for the United States is jittery.
589
00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:24,653
We don't know much about their boat.
It's obviously a different, uh, type
590
00:39:24,737 --> 00:39:27,865
of, uh, characteristics
than a standard 12 Metre.
591
00:39:27,948 --> 00:39:30,826
It tacks differently,
and it, uh, accelerates differently,
592
00:39:30,910 --> 00:39:33,412
and it maneuvers differently
at the starts.
593
00:39:35,247 --> 00:39:39,251
The New York Yacht Club saw
that our race record was really strong.
594
00:39:39,335 --> 00:39:40,753
-Hi.
-Two minutes for a--
595
00:39:40,836 --> 00:39:43,005
-No. Sorry.
-Not even two minutes?
596
00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:46,008
We're late for a meeting here,
so we gotta move on.
597
00:39:46,092 --> 00:39:47,093
Thank you anyway.
598
00:39:48,052 --> 00:39:49,887
And if these Aussies are beating up
599
00:39:49,970 --> 00:39:51,889
on the foreign challengers so easily,
600
00:39:51,972 --> 00:39:54,558
47 wins out of 55 races,
601
00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:56,435
then that starts to cut deep.
602
00:39:57,478 --> 00:39:59,939
That sent shock waves
through the New York Yacht Club.
603
00:40:00,564 --> 00:40:02,691
Clearly shock waves through Newport.
604
00:40:03,526 --> 00:40:05,569
There's a serious side to this.
605
00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:08,072
Obviously there's more
than just a yachting race at stake.
606
00:40:08,155 --> 00:40:09,532
There's also a lot of money.
607
00:40:09,615 --> 00:40:13,744
It's estimated that £100 million are spent
in and around Newport
608
00:40:13,828 --> 00:40:15,204
during the America's Cup.
609
00:40:15,287 --> 00:40:18,916
It was a sudden realization
that they could lose this golden goose.
610
00:40:18,999 --> 00:40:20,501
It could really happen.
611
00:40:20,584 --> 00:40:22,878
People in Newport
and Rhode Island knew all the time,
612
00:40:22,962 --> 00:40:24,880
but kept it a very closely guarded secret
613
00:40:24,964 --> 00:40:27,133
that the prize
isn't so much a sailboat race.
614
00:40:27,216 --> 00:40:30,386
It's about a billion-dollar industry
that goes along with the Cup.
615
00:40:31,387 --> 00:40:33,222
So if the Americans lose,
616
00:40:33,305 --> 00:40:37,268
then a substantial amount of that
might be spent in Western Australia.
617
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:40,438
So, for the New York Yacht Club,
618
00:40:40,938 --> 00:40:42,648
the consequences of losing
619
00:40:43,774 --> 00:40:44,984
are enormous.
620
00:40:48,237 --> 00:40:51,490
An ABC News Brief
brought to you by Apple Computer.
621
00:40:51,574 --> 00:40:54,160
Now from Los Angeles,
here's Peter Jennings.
622
00:40:54,243 --> 00:40:57,371
The America's Cup competition
is set to get underway this Thursday.
623
00:40:57,455 --> 00:40:58,706
There is now a dispute, however,
624
00:40:58,789 --> 00:41:01,333
between the New York Yacht Club
and the Australians.
625
00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:04,336
It seems the Americans are upset
with something the Aussies have done
626
00:41:04,420 --> 00:41:06,297
with the underside of their boat,
627
00:41:06,380 --> 00:41:09,800
something the Americans feel
will give the Aussies an unfair advantage.
628
00:41:09,884 --> 00:41:11,760
The New York Yacht Club alleges
629
00:41:11,844 --> 00:41:14,430
that Australia II's winged keel
is illegal.
630
00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:16,765
This four-million-dollar challenge,
631
00:41:16,849 --> 00:41:18,767
the closest ever
in the history of the Cup,
632
00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:19,685
could be scuttled.
633
00:41:20,352 --> 00:41:22,855
The New York Yacht Club,
they wanted to ban us.
634
00:41:23,355 --> 00:41:26,025
They said there is no way
that Benny could've come up with this.
635
00:41:26,108 --> 00:41:28,861
It had to have been designed
by other people.
636
00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:34,658
People couldn't believe
that he could do it,
637
00:41:34,742 --> 00:41:37,036
given his education and his background.
638
00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:39,622
At the center of all the fuss this year
639
00:41:39,705 --> 00:41:41,290
has been barefoot Ben Lexcen.
640
00:41:41,790 --> 00:41:43,459
With three years' schooling,
641
00:41:43,542 --> 00:41:47,796
he's the man who has designed,
arguably, the fastest 12 Metre ever.
642
00:41:49,507 --> 00:41:51,258
I didn't know much about Ben Lexcen.
643
00:41:52,593 --> 00:41:53,677
But people talk.
644
00:41:54,303 --> 00:41:55,888
You hear through the grapevine.
645
00:41:56,430 --> 00:42:00,100
Who's to say these wings,
whose idea these really were?
646
00:42:00,184 --> 00:42:04,897
The Americans try and confirm
that Lexcen was helped by Dutch designers.
647
00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:09,026
We believe Lexcen used the idea
from Amsterdam,
648
00:42:09,652 --> 00:42:14,323
but the rules are it had to be designed
by the country of the challenge.
649
00:42:14,406 --> 00:42:16,992
The New York Yacht Club
believe they have grounds to say
650
00:42:17,076 --> 00:42:19,662
that I didn't design the boat
totally by myself.
651
00:42:19,745 --> 00:42:23,832
They go behind your back
and try and get evidence in dubious ways.
652
00:42:25,918 --> 00:42:27,878
This afternoon, Ben was suffering
653
00:42:27,962 --> 00:42:30,506
what friends said
were a couple of dizzy spells.
654
00:42:31,257 --> 00:42:33,968
Doctors immediately put him
into intensive care.
655
00:42:35,135 --> 00:42:37,555
His friends say
it's the attacks against his name
656
00:42:37,638 --> 00:42:38,973
that helped put him there.
657
00:42:40,683 --> 00:42:42,643
The New York Yacht Club were endeavoring
658
00:42:42,726 --> 00:42:44,728
to get the design assistants in Holland
659
00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:48,983
to say that they designed the keel
and not Ben Lexcen.
660
00:42:49,066 --> 00:42:52,111
The Dutch had designed the keel
and not Ben Lexcen.
661
00:42:52,194 --> 00:42:54,863
We felt responsible to go over,
662
00:42:54,947 --> 00:42:57,408
to send someone to Holland
to really investigate it.
663
00:42:58,450 --> 00:43:01,328
The director of the Netherlands
Ship Model Basin has charged
664
00:43:01,412 --> 00:43:05,791
that members of the New York Yacht Club
tried to get him to sign a false affidavit
665
00:43:05,874 --> 00:43:08,544
stating Ben Lexcen was not the designer.
666
00:43:09,378 --> 00:43:12,131
I was very surprised
to come face-to-face with two people
667
00:43:12,214 --> 00:43:14,466
who wanted me to sign a document
668
00:43:14,550 --> 00:43:18,387
which said that I was the designer
of Australia II rather than Ben Lexcen,
669
00:43:18,470 --> 00:43:21,348
which is almost too ridiculous
to even think of.
670
00:43:22,850 --> 00:43:26,395
The keel cup committee said,
"We've been over to Holland,
671
00:43:27,229 --> 00:43:30,899
and there was no substance
to their complaint."
672
00:43:31,483 --> 00:43:33,611
"This boat is fair and legal."
673
00:43:34,278 --> 00:43:36,780
And that was the thing
that finally busted their case apart.
674
00:43:37,406 --> 00:43:40,492
The New York Yacht Club
today withdrew its objections
675
00:43:40,576 --> 00:43:43,495
to the mysterious winged keel
on Australia II
676
00:43:43,579 --> 00:43:46,790
and said, "May the better yacht
win the America's Cup."
677
00:43:46,874 --> 00:43:51,712
It has been 56 races
and nearly two and a half years of effort
678
00:43:51,795 --> 00:43:54,798
been put in to reach where we are today.
679
00:43:54,882 --> 00:44:00,137
Let the best yacht and crew decide
by the gun at the end of each race.
680
00:44:07,811 --> 00:44:11,523
We're about to go live by satellite
to Newport. Rob Mundle, are you there?
681
00:44:11,607 --> 00:44:13,233
Certainly. Good morning, Harry.
682
00:44:13,317 --> 00:44:15,152
We have a great battle coming up.
683
00:44:15,235 --> 00:44:19,198
The showdown, 132 years
of sporting history at stake here.
684
00:44:19,281 --> 00:44:21,867
We're looking at Dennis Conner
on the screen right there.
685
00:44:22,368 --> 00:44:23,494
I was uneasy.
686
00:44:24,244 --> 00:44:27,414
Bertrand, he was at the top of his game.
687
00:44:28,248 --> 00:44:30,042
He was a tough competitor,
688
00:44:30,125 --> 00:44:32,378
and he had a very good boat
and a good crew.
689
00:44:32,461 --> 00:44:34,630
He was dangerous, and he scared me.
690
00:44:36,382 --> 00:44:38,884
Liberty and Australia II
have entered the race course.
691
00:44:38,967 --> 00:44:41,762
According to my watch,
nine minutes and 30 seconds from now,
692
00:44:41,845 --> 00:44:43,555
they will cross the starting line.
693
00:44:44,056 --> 00:44:47,017
Ten minutes
before the start of the race gun,
694
00:44:47,101 --> 00:44:48,852
that's when the two boats would meet,
695
00:44:49,728 --> 00:44:51,313
positioning yourself,
696
00:44:51,397 --> 00:44:54,066
and that's when it'd be on.
The gloves would come off.
697
00:44:55,275 --> 00:44:58,946
The yacht that had got
to the first mark of the first race
698
00:44:59,029 --> 00:45:00,989
had always won the America's Cup.
699
00:45:05,869 --> 00:45:08,580
Australia over the line first
by three seconds.
700
00:45:09,206 --> 00:45:11,542
And I look behind,
and Dennis is right on our hammer,
701
00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:12,835
right on our hammer.
702
00:45:16,130 --> 00:45:18,757
The two yachts
are now approaching the first marker,
703
00:45:18,841 --> 00:45:20,801
and it's good news for Australia.
704
00:45:21,468 --> 00:45:23,887
We just beat them
by a couple of boat lengths.
705
00:45:23,971 --> 00:45:25,431
One to us.
706
00:45:25,514 --> 00:45:28,142
Australia has just made history.
707
00:45:28,225 --> 00:45:31,186
The foreign challenger
has never reached the first mark
708
00:45:31,270 --> 00:45:34,940
ahead of the American boat
in the first race.
709
00:45:35,023 --> 00:45:37,192
Australia has just done it.
710
00:45:38,193 --> 00:45:40,946
After the start,
we sailed away from Liberty.
711
00:45:42,990 --> 00:45:46,034
Then all of a sudden,
it was like an explosion.
712
00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:55,002
We had no control at all.
713
00:45:55,627 --> 00:45:59,089
The wheel just went light.
No steering. Just rudderless.
714
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,514
It was weird. We just had
a fitting pull off the side of the boat
715
00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:10,100
that had been there forever, you know.
716
00:46:10,893 --> 00:46:13,312
And Dennis passed around us.
717
00:46:14,605 --> 00:46:15,814
The race was over.
718
00:46:17,483 --> 00:46:19,109
Liberty wins.
719
00:46:19,193 --> 00:46:22,362
Sounds like a World War I poster,
but it is instead the headline
720
00:46:22,446 --> 00:46:24,865
out of today's opening round
of the America's Cup.
721
00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:29,453
We went across his stern,
and the damn rudder broke.
722
00:46:32,998 --> 00:46:35,250
And then, of course,
start of the second race,
723
00:46:35,334 --> 00:46:39,546
bang, one of the tangs holding
the headboard of the mainsail breaks.
724
00:46:40,339 --> 00:46:42,382
All summer their boat
broke down just once,
725
00:46:42,466 --> 00:46:45,677
and now in the finals,
two races and two breakdowns.
726
00:46:45,761 --> 00:46:48,430
This has meant a lot to the Liberty crew,
giving them momentum
727
00:46:48,514 --> 00:46:51,225
and an awful lot of confidence
heading into race three.
728
00:46:52,059 --> 00:46:55,479
Commodore McCullough,
what would you say the odds are right now?
729
00:46:55,562 --> 00:46:59,817
I think we'll win it 4-0, but I'll take
four-to-one as a safety factor.
730
00:47:01,109 --> 00:47:02,444
Any further questions?
731
00:47:02,528 --> 00:47:05,614
For something like that to happen
two races in a row,
732
00:47:06,156 --> 00:47:07,991
it's just unforgivable.
733
00:47:08,075 --> 00:47:09,451
Benny, give me a break,
734
00:47:09,535 --> 00:47:12,621
just give me something
that'll allow us to play the game here.
735
00:47:13,789 --> 00:47:15,249
When we had that breakage,
736
00:47:15,332 --> 00:47:18,377
there was some tension
with John Bertrand and Ben Lexcen.
737
00:47:18,460 --> 00:47:20,838
And I remember John saying to him,
738
00:47:20,921 --> 00:47:24,925
"Go through the boat from head to toe
and just check everything."
739
00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:28,512
They have now gone over the yacht
740
00:47:28,595 --> 00:47:31,348
from bow to stern,
from masthead to keel bolt,
741
00:47:31,431 --> 00:47:34,142
checking every sail,
every piece of equipment.
742
00:47:36,436 --> 00:47:39,606
Race three, Benny didn't attend
the launching of the boat.
743
00:47:39,690 --> 00:47:41,775
He was actually on a hill with binoculars
744
00:47:43,026 --> 00:47:44,570
under intense pressure.
745
00:47:44,653 --> 00:47:48,323
With just about seven minutes to go now
to get this race underway.
746
00:47:49,283 --> 00:47:51,034
You are watching Australia II,
747
00:47:51,118 --> 00:47:54,204
the 12 Metre that has set
the yachting world on its ear.
748
00:47:54,955 --> 00:47:57,249
Three, two, one.
749
00:48:03,297 --> 00:48:05,757
Australia II has just passed Liberty
750
00:48:05,841 --> 00:48:08,427
and is taking off down the course.
751
00:48:09,011 --> 00:48:14,224
But as it turns out,
it was Benny's dream in its finest hour.
752
00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:22,024
We have just reached
the three-hour mark of this race,
753
00:48:22,107 --> 00:48:24,985
and the winds here in Newport
are starting to pick up.
754
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,490
Quite often in Newport,
the wind speed was very strong,
755
00:48:31,074 --> 00:48:35,621
and the winged keel effectively lowered
the center of gravity of the yacht
756
00:48:35,704 --> 00:48:39,041
and made Australia II competitive
in stronger breezes.
757
00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:42,377
This concept, upwind,
the boat was a rocket ship.
758
00:48:42,461 --> 00:48:44,546
She was seriously fast.
759
00:48:48,550 --> 00:48:50,177
Australia sailed across the line
760
00:48:50,260 --> 00:48:53,555
to win the third race
by three minutes and 14 seconds.
761
00:48:54,306 --> 00:48:57,309
Since 12 Metre started racing
for the America's Cup,
762
00:48:57,392 --> 00:49:00,354
that's the biggest margin
ever recorded by a challenger.
763
00:49:01,605 --> 00:49:03,899
Australia II is exceptionally fast.
764
00:49:03,982 --> 00:49:06,944
This is what the New York Yacht Club
is afraid of.
765
00:49:08,403 --> 00:49:11,657
The New York Yacht Club
certainly didn't have any enthusiasm
766
00:49:11,740 --> 00:49:13,116
from my performance.
767
00:49:14,034 --> 00:49:16,745
Is the New York Yacht Club
at all embarrassed about this?
768
00:49:16,828 --> 00:49:18,664
We keep the pressure on the skippers
769
00:49:18,747 --> 00:49:22,084
because we say their head replaces
the Cup in the New York Yacht Club,
770
00:49:22,167 --> 00:49:25,128
so we keep pressure
on them all the time.
771
00:49:26,213 --> 00:49:28,757
But I came in
after losing that race,
772
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,385
I wasn't ready
just to lay down and quit. No.
773
00:49:31,885 --> 00:49:36,098
The biggest thing to me was the attitude.
Attitude, attitude, attitude.
774
00:49:37,265 --> 00:49:38,600
Tired of the bullshit.
775
00:49:44,064 --> 00:49:46,692
Tired of wasting four hours
every morning fucking around
776
00:49:46,775 --> 00:49:49,069
for something
that's not gonna help us win the Cup.
777
00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:52,906
All I was focused on
was being the best I could be.
778
00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:54,658
No excuse to lose.
779
00:49:57,077 --> 00:49:58,078
Look at this.
780
00:49:58,161 --> 00:50:00,288
The boat at the top
of the screen is Liberty.
781
00:50:00,372 --> 00:50:02,916
Six seconds ahead of Australia
when the gun fired.
782
00:50:04,418 --> 00:50:06,336
Liberty went around the first mark
783
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:07,879
36 seconds ahead.
784
00:50:09,089 --> 00:50:11,299
Dennis Conner was unstoppable.
785
00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:16,304
He was the most cunning
and clever on the water
786
00:50:16,388 --> 00:50:18,890
and strategically made good moves.
787
00:50:18,974 --> 00:50:21,184
We get into a classic tacking duel.
788
00:50:21,268 --> 00:50:25,564
He was impossible to go around,
always covering tack for tack.
789
00:50:27,899 --> 00:50:30,986
And he was hitting the wind shifts
at the right time,
790
00:50:31,778 --> 00:50:32,988
massive wind shifts.
791
00:50:34,156 --> 00:50:38,118
Liberty led Australia
across the finish line by 43 seconds.
792
00:50:38,201 --> 00:50:39,411
There she goes.
793
00:50:39,494 --> 00:50:42,622
She's shooting it.
There's the gun. This race is over.
794
00:50:42,706 --> 00:50:44,624
The Americans lead three to one.
795
00:50:45,459 --> 00:50:46,376
I kicked butt.
796
00:50:48,253 --> 00:50:51,214
The American yacht Liberty
tonight is just one victory away
797
00:50:51,298 --> 00:50:53,717
from keeping the America's Cup
in the United States.
798
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,469
Three to one in the America's Cup series.
799
00:50:55,552 --> 00:50:57,054
One more win for Liberty,
800
00:50:57,137 --> 00:51:01,266
and the America's Cup will stay
bolted down at the New York Yacht Club.
801
00:51:03,810 --> 00:51:06,229
The despondent Australians
return to their dock,
802
00:51:06,313 --> 00:51:07,814
knowing they're down 3-1.
803
00:51:07,898 --> 00:51:10,400
They cannot afford
to make any more errors.
804
00:51:12,027 --> 00:51:16,114
At 3-1 in Newport,
the champagne was on ice,
805
00:51:16,698 --> 00:51:19,409
the banners were ready to go up.
806
00:51:19,493 --> 00:51:21,244
"Congratulations, Dennis and team."
807
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,417
And Newport was about to celebrate.
808
00:51:30,378 --> 00:51:33,507
It's all over. Absolutely. It's all over.
809
00:51:34,007 --> 00:51:35,550
Newport was rocking.
810
00:51:35,634 --> 00:51:40,222
They just couldn't have been happier
to have another thrashing.
811
00:51:43,058 --> 00:51:45,769
It was just demoralizing.
812
00:51:48,980 --> 00:51:53,693
On the morning of the race,
I remember the breakfast was subdued.
813
00:51:55,862 --> 00:51:58,365
I had a hard time
even smelling the bacon and eggs,
814
00:51:58,448 --> 00:51:59,449
let alone eating anything.
815
00:52:02,285 --> 00:52:05,372
But then, on the television,
we received a note
816
00:52:05,455 --> 00:52:07,582
from the Prime Minister of Australia,
Bob Hawke.
817
00:52:07,666 --> 00:52:11,253
Congratulations, you've done
a magnificent job to this point.
818
00:52:11,336 --> 00:52:15,090
What you've shown in relation
to our technological capacity,
819
00:52:15,173 --> 00:52:18,093
our determination as individuals…
820
00:52:18,176 --> 00:52:21,179
You've got
the entire support of Australia.
821
00:52:21,263 --> 00:52:23,181
We'll all be looking forward
to your return
822
00:52:23,265 --> 00:52:26,184
when we will do you as proud
as you have done us.
823
00:52:28,019 --> 00:52:30,605
Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia,
824
00:52:30,689 --> 00:52:32,107
shit, that's a big deal.
825
00:52:33,275 --> 00:52:36,820
Here we were being recognized
by the prime minister of our nation.
826
00:52:37,737 --> 00:52:39,573
It was a total game changer.
827
00:52:44,911 --> 00:52:49,958
Armies over the last thousand years
have gone to war with symbols and music.
828
00:52:52,252 --> 00:52:55,088
So, the boxing kangaroo flag was raised.
829
00:52:56,464 --> 00:52:59,885
And we chose a battle hymn,
Men at Work, "Down Under."
830
00:53:00,635 --> 00:53:02,846
And the team spirit came alive.
831
00:53:13,023 --> 00:53:17,027
And so almost unbelievably,
that's Australia ahead at the first mark.
832
00:53:18,987 --> 00:53:22,115
Off the coast of Rhode Island,
it was Australia's day.
833
00:53:26,119 --> 00:53:29,664
And Australia II still is alive
and in the America's Cup yacht race.
834
00:53:41,009 --> 00:53:44,763
We're just gonna get out there and do it
twice more, get this Cup for Australia.
835
00:53:48,934 --> 00:53:51,645
At three to two,
the tables were turning.
836
00:53:51,728 --> 00:53:54,689
Television crews were coming in
from all around the world.
837
00:53:55,190 --> 00:53:57,525
Australians were flying in to Newport.
838
00:54:00,654 --> 00:54:03,740
Tonight, that quaint coastal resort
of Newport, Rhode Island,
839
00:54:03,823 --> 00:54:06,701
is under the constant barrage
of Australia II.
840
00:54:08,995 --> 00:54:12,165
The whole of Newport knew
that the Australians were in town.
841
00:54:12,249 --> 00:54:15,252
We tore the place apart.
842
00:54:18,463 --> 00:54:22,717
The Aussies certainly have joined
the hype and hoopla here with gusto,
843
00:54:22,801 --> 00:54:25,637
promoting their souvenirs
and image aggressively.
844
00:54:33,770 --> 00:54:35,730
The barbarians are at the gate.
845
00:54:36,314 --> 00:54:39,025
The Australians have come
for the sacred Cup,
846
00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:40,443
and they're howling.
847
00:54:41,569 --> 00:54:47,075
What Australians really like
is upsetting the upper echelon.
848
00:54:59,504 --> 00:55:02,048
In race six, we were sailing the boat
extremely well.
849
00:55:02,132 --> 00:55:03,383
The boat was a rocket ship.
850
00:55:04,884 --> 00:55:10,682
It's Australia II with a very big lead
here by some two minutes, it seems.
851
00:55:11,266 --> 00:55:14,060
And we won that race
by three and a half minutes.
852
00:55:14,144 --> 00:55:15,562
It was the greatest win
853
00:55:15,645 --> 00:55:18,440
by a challenging yacht
in the 12 Metre era.
854
00:55:21,318 --> 00:55:24,863
In 132 years, no challenger
has ever driven the races
855
00:55:24,946 --> 00:55:26,448
to the full best-of-seven series.
856
00:55:28,241 --> 00:55:32,120
The Australians, dare we say it,
humiliated the Americans.
857
00:55:32,203 --> 00:55:36,541
So now it's three apiece.
One race to go, a true world series.
858
00:55:36,624 --> 00:55:39,419
-We can do it, Jim. We can do it.
-Oh yeah.
859
00:55:39,502 --> 00:55:43,006
The score went from 3-1 to 3-2 to 3-3.
860
00:55:44,257 --> 00:55:46,718
The Aussies had arrived.
861
00:55:47,427 --> 00:55:52,807
How does it feel being the first
in 132 years, which is a very long time,
862
00:55:52,891 --> 00:55:54,476
to be in this situation of three-all?
863
00:55:54,559 --> 00:55:56,936
I mean, it must concern you.
864
00:55:58,063 --> 00:56:01,733
It's gonna be very exciting
to be involved in the race of the century.
865
00:56:01,816 --> 00:56:05,028
We're hoping that, uh, we can find
a way to prevail
866
00:56:05,111 --> 00:56:07,489
like we have in, over the last 132 years.
867
00:56:07,572 --> 00:56:10,533
I think we have
an awful lot of tradition going for us,
868
00:56:10,617 --> 00:56:14,662
and, uh, somehow,
I think we'll pull it out on Saturday.
869
00:56:23,129 --> 00:56:27,008
Dennis was in
a super high-pressure environment.
870
00:56:29,844 --> 00:56:32,555
And the bottom line is
the New York Yacht Club
871
00:56:33,056 --> 00:56:37,435
were never in the business of losing,
literally, by any means.
872
00:56:37,519 --> 00:56:40,980
Panic, pure and simple,
has gripped the American camp.
873
00:56:41,064 --> 00:56:43,650
Shaken by Australia II's
effortless win in the sixth race,
874
00:56:43,733 --> 00:56:47,070
the Liberty syndicate
are resorting to truly desperate measures.
875
00:56:47,654 --> 00:56:51,866
Today the New York Yacht Club
just couldn't resist firing one more shot.
876
00:56:53,535 --> 00:56:57,497
Dennis and the team found
a loophole in the rule on the 11th hour
877
00:56:58,164 --> 00:57:00,166
and made major changes in Liberty.
878
00:57:00,750 --> 00:57:02,585
The red defender was towed up river
879
00:57:02,669 --> 00:57:06,047
so that 1,000 pounds of her ballast
could be removed.
880
00:57:06,131 --> 00:57:08,049
It had never happened before.
881
00:57:08,675 --> 00:57:11,636
But the New York Yacht Club
allowed them to do it.
882
00:57:12,137 --> 00:57:15,557
Would never have happened
if we wanted to reconfigure our boat.
883
00:57:16,891 --> 00:57:19,269
Like NASCAR, there are rules in NASCAR,
884
00:57:19,352 --> 00:57:22,439
but there's--
Rules are broken, and they win the race.
885
00:57:22,522 --> 00:57:24,107
You use the rules to your advantage
886
00:57:24,190 --> 00:57:26,234
to take advantage
of the other competition.
887
00:57:26,734 --> 00:57:28,236
No excuse to lose.
888
00:57:31,614 --> 00:57:36,953
Alan and the crew, the exercise
in which you're about to engage
889
00:57:37,036 --> 00:57:41,791
is certainly one of the historic moments
in Australian sporting history.
890
00:57:41,875 --> 00:57:44,294
You have all our best wishes with you.
891
00:57:44,377 --> 00:57:46,171
If it gets tight, let us know,
892
00:57:46,254 --> 00:57:48,965
and we'll all turn towards Newport
and blow to get you home.
893
00:57:49,048 --> 00:57:51,301
We're with you.
The very, very best of luck.
894
00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:55,513
No one had ever won it from the Americans.
895
00:57:55,597 --> 00:57:59,017
So here was history,
absolute history in the making.
896
00:57:59,934 --> 00:58:01,978
Always good to beat the Americans.
897
00:58:02,687 --> 00:58:03,980
At anything.
898
00:58:04,063 --> 00:58:07,901
We're with you, Australia II!
899
00:58:08,943 --> 00:58:12,947
We're with you, Australia II!
900
00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:15,200
We're with you…
901
00:58:17,327 --> 00:58:19,871
It's the premier sailing event
in the world.
902
00:58:19,954 --> 00:58:22,248
It's the cup that's never been lost.
903
00:58:22,332 --> 00:58:24,959
It's the race that may end
the longest winning tradition
904
00:58:25,043 --> 00:58:26,794
in international sports history.
905
00:58:27,420 --> 00:58:30,590
Live from Newport,
this is the 25th defense,
906
00:58:30,673 --> 00:58:32,842
the final race for the America's Cup.
907
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:38,806
Good morning, the world.
908
00:58:38,890 --> 00:58:41,267
Once again, another live telecast
909
00:58:41,351 --> 00:58:45,313
to Australia, New Zealand,
Hong Kong, America and Europe.
910
00:58:46,189 --> 00:58:49,442
At the moment,
we have about 30 million people watching.
911
00:58:52,779 --> 00:58:55,323
It's an emotional morning
for Mrs. Beryl Bertrand,
912
00:58:55,406 --> 00:59:00,370
as her son, John, takes Australia II
into the grand final of the America's Cup.
913
00:59:01,746 --> 00:59:05,583
Today they sail the winner-take-all,
do-or-die, there's-no-tomorrow race.
914
00:59:14,676 --> 00:59:18,012
Being towed out,
I remember it was like a zoo.
915
00:59:18,096 --> 00:59:22,183
The envelope of people around us
was like a pressure cooker.
916
00:59:29,566 --> 00:59:33,570
We're lining up now for the start
of the seventh and vital race
917
00:59:33,653 --> 00:59:35,405
in this America's Cup.
918
00:59:36,072 --> 00:59:38,241
This is thousands of hours of preparation,
919
00:59:38,324 --> 00:59:40,243
a lifetime of preparation.
920
00:59:40,326 --> 00:59:43,871
And I'd visualized this space.
I'd visualized this time.
921
00:59:46,666 --> 00:59:47,875
I said to the team,
922
00:59:48,543 --> 00:59:52,422
"Visualize you're on the back of an eagle,
a thousand feet in the air."
923
00:59:58,553 --> 01:00:00,972
"And you see the boat
going through the water."
924
01:00:02,390 --> 01:00:06,436
So I said, "Reach down with big scissors
and cut the distractions,
925
01:00:06,519 --> 01:00:09,272
release the boat, release ourselves."
926
01:00:14,193 --> 01:00:16,487
"There's no tomorrow,
there's no yesterday,
927
01:00:16,571 --> 01:00:18,031
and there's no future."
928
01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:20,700
It was just today.
929
01:00:20,783 --> 01:00:22,744
Five seconds away from the start.
930
01:00:24,495 --> 01:00:26,706
-There's the starting gun.
931
01:00:26,789 --> 01:00:30,335
When the gun went off,
the two boats charged at each other.
932
01:00:30,418 --> 01:00:32,378
Here we go, you know. This is gonna be on.
933
01:00:33,463 --> 01:00:35,715
They are neck-and-neck at the moment.
934
01:00:35,798 --> 01:00:38,176
John Bertrand has now turned
towards Liberty.
935
01:00:38,259 --> 01:00:41,721
We actually had a good start,
and when we tacked, we were in front.
936
01:00:41,804 --> 01:00:44,057
Australia's gone
right on top of Liberty
937
01:00:44,140 --> 01:00:45,141
by about two boat lengths.
938
01:00:45,224 --> 01:00:46,684
Both boats on starboard tack.
939
01:00:47,435 --> 01:00:50,229
Uh-oh! It looks like
John Bertrand has decided
940
01:00:50,313 --> 01:00:51,689
not to cover Dennis Conner.
941
01:00:51,773 --> 01:00:53,566
But Dennis gets in front
942
01:00:54,359 --> 01:00:57,403
and, quite frankly,
starts to sail away from us.
943
01:01:01,491 --> 01:01:06,371
It became clear that Liberty was actually
a faster boat than what we'd seen before.
944
01:01:06,954 --> 01:01:08,122
The boat had been revved up.
945
01:01:08,748 --> 01:01:11,250
The boat is gaining maximum speed
946
01:01:11,334 --> 01:01:13,544
moving very nicely
through the water there.
947
01:01:13,628 --> 01:01:15,797
She certainly looks like a different boat
948
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,049
and obviously she's sailing
like a different boat today.
949
01:01:19,008 --> 01:01:22,178
You can see the two yachts
are now approaching the first marker,
950
01:01:22,261 --> 01:01:24,472
and it's not good news for Australia.
951
01:01:24,555 --> 01:01:28,434
Liberty is leading by 29 seconds
at the first mark.
952
01:01:29,143 --> 01:01:31,562
That failure
by John Bertrand to recover
953
01:01:31,646 --> 01:01:32,563
could be tragic.
954
01:01:34,774 --> 01:01:38,069
We did everything we could,
but they just went faster.
955
01:01:38,945 --> 01:01:41,739
If you're just joining us,
it has been Liberty all the way.
956
01:01:41,823 --> 01:01:46,119
At the second mark, it was Liberty by 45.
At the third mark, Liberty by 23.
957
01:01:48,246 --> 01:01:52,125
They just swept away from us.
Close to a minute in front of us.
958
01:01:52,208 --> 01:01:53,918
We just couldn't believe it.
959
01:01:54,711 --> 01:01:56,087
We're just watching
960
01:01:56,170 --> 01:01:59,340
Liberty having rounded the fourth mark
on the course,
961
01:01:59,424 --> 01:02:01,843
the margin around 55 seconds, Bob.
962
01:02:02,427 --> 01:02:04,429
The Cup is as good as lost.
963
01:02:04,512 --> 01:02:07,265
It seems that Bertrand's errors
early in the race
964
01:02:07,348 --> 01:02:10,101
may have cost Australia II
the America's Cup.
965
01:02:10,184 --> 01:02:12,437
To get 58 seconds ahead, that…
966
01:02:13,438 --> 01:02:14,731
that's a long way.
967
01:02:16,983 --> 01:02:19,026
Four thousand people gathered outside
968
01:02:19,110 --> 01:02:21,362
the Royal Perth Yacht Club
in Western Australia,
969
01:02:21,446 --> 01:02:25,742
watching our live pictures
and, uh, similar scenes over in Sydney.
970
01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:29,954
It appears
Liberty has a healthy lead at this point.
971
01:02:30,037 --> 01:02:32,373
It's a race Dennis Conner cannot lose.
972
01:02:33,750 --> 01:02:36,544
The tension mounts
at the Bertrand household.
973
01:02:36,627 --> 01:02:38,755
Mrs. Bertrand experiences the agony
974
01:02:38,838 --> 01:02:43,384
of watching The Wonder from Down Under
fall behind the American yacht, Liberty.
975
01:02:44,260 --> 01:02:48,347
And, gentlemen, this downwind run
is possibly our last hope.
976
01:02:50,558 --> 01:02:52,393
They were basically gone.
977
01:02:53,936 --> 01:02:55,354
But the bottom line is,
978
01:02:55,438 --> 01:02:58,024
if the opposition
start to believe that the competition
979
01:02:58,107 --> 01:03:00,443
and the equipment
that they're using is superior,
980
01:03:01,152 --> 01:03:04,447
and you can't do anything about it
'cause it's secret,
981
01:03:04,530 --> 01:03:07,617
that becomes, psychologically,
a big hurdle to overcome.
982
01:03:09,118 --> 01:03:11,370
And ultimately, Dennis made a decision
983
01:03:12,371 --> 01:03:13,414
that was a mistake.
984
01:03:13,498 --> 01:03:16,334
Dennis Conner's come
to the right-hand side of the course,
985
01:03:16,417 --> 01:03:19,545
looking for a big wind shift
which he hopes will be over here.
986
01:03:19,629 --> 01:03:23,174
We get to the top marker,
and Dennis, he tacks way out.
987
01:03:24,091 --> 01:03:25,885
This is an unusual move.
988
01:03:25,968 --> 01:03:28,679
Dennis has decided
not to cover John Bertrand.
989
01:03:28,763 --> 01:03:31,516
He went to the right-hand side
of the course,
990
01:03:32,350 --> 01:03:33,810
and that surprised me.
991
01:03:36,604 --> 01:03:39,273
And I remember
just looking at the clouds evolving.
992
01:03:40,066 --> 01:03:42,151
I could start to see the wind on water.
993
01:03:45,196 --> 01:03:48,574
Darker patches and lighter patches.
I could see the direction of the wind.
994
01:03:51,619 --> 01:03:52,954
And then, eventually,
995
01:03:53,037 --> 01:03:56,332
you start to get a sixth sense
of what the wind is gonna do.
996
01:03:56,415 --> 01:03:59,919
Not now, but within
the next 10, 15 and 20 seconds,
997
01:04:00,795 --> 01:04:01,879
which is the game.
998
01:04:02,505 --> 01:04:03,339
Trim.
999
01:04:04,924 --> 01:04:09,220
And as we keep going to the left,
the breeze starts going left.
1000
01:04:12,223 --> 01:04:13,099
Here we go.
1001
01:04:16,561 --> 01:04:20,022
And we started to make gains on Liberty,
with extra wind.
1002
01:04:21,357 --> 01:04:22,608
As they head off there,
1003
01:04:22,692 --> 01:04:25,278
you can see crewmen winding
those coffee grinder winches,
1004
01:04:25,361 --> 01:04:27,446
trying to keep the yacht at maximum speed.
1005
01:04:27,530 --> 01:04:30,116
It's going to be a mammoth effort
if she should do it.
1006
01:04:30,616 --> 01:04:33,035
It was meter by meter.
It was yard by yard.
1007
01:04:33,119 --> 01:04:34,829
It was wind shift by wind shift.
1008
01:04:37,665 --> 01:04:39,876
There you see
Australia II coming back
1009
01:04:39,959 --> 01:04:41,752
right now towards Liberty.
1010
01:04:42,253 --> 01:04:44,005
This race is a hot one.
1011
01:04:44,964 --> 01:04:49,093
Only a matter of minutes ago,
the America's Cup was as good as lost.
1012
01:04:49,176 --> 01:04:50,595
Gentlemen, it's neck and neck,
1013
01:04:50,678 --> 01:04:53,639
but perhaps Liberty
just fractionally in front.
1014
01:04:53,723 --> 01:04:56,475
So Australia II is back in the race.
1015
01:04:58,144 --> 01:05:00,688
And then, of course,
they jibed and came across.
1016
01:05:00,771 --> 01:05:03,941
The whole of the world,
who's watching this,
1017
01:05:04,025 --> 01:05:05,026
is holding their breath.
1018
01:05:05,109 --> 01:05:09,071
The tension at the moment
is absolutely electric out there.
1019
01:05:09,155 --> 01:05:11,866
Australia II's decided
to come back and attack.
1020
01:05:12,366 --> 01:05:15,036
It's not easy,
particularly from a helicopter shot,
1021
01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:16,746
to see who's in front.
1022
01:05:17,705 --> 01:05:18,956
What'll happen with the cross?
1023
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:23,127
And we went from 57 seconds behind
to bow on bow.
1024
01:05:28,758 --> 01:05:33,054
I made the decision to jibe
on top of them, which was high risk.
1025
01:05:33,763 --> 01:05:35,389
A collision course at the moment.
1026
01:05:35,973 --> 01:05:38,768
-Looks like Australia II will go across.
A gutsy move.
1027
01:05:38,851 --> 01:05:41,604
An unbelievable move
to come across there now.
1028
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:47,193
We went across their bow,
and we're in front.
1029
01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:49,987
It looks like
Australia II is back in front.
1030
01:05:50,071 --> 01:05:52,448
-Absolutely incredible.
1031
01:05:52,531 --> 01:05:56,035
There's about 2,000 people here
packing Royal Perth Yacht Club,
1032
01:05:56,118 --> 01:05:59,330
and they are absolutely rooting
for Australia II.
1033
01:05:59,413 --> 01:06:02,708
I've never ever seen anything like this.
1034
01:06:02,792 --> 01:06:05,378
There was mass disappointment here before.
1035
01:06:05,461 --> 01:06:09,382
In the past leg,
it's been absolute mayhem in here.
1036
01:06:10,299 --> 01:06:13,302
Australia II! Australia II!
1037
01:06:16,305 --> 01:06:18,099
And now it's all on.
1038
01:06:18,182 --> 01:06:21,185
An absolute drag race to the finish.
Do you believe this, Bob Lobel?
1039
01:06:21,894 --> 01:06:24,730
I've seen a lot of things,
but never anything like this.
1040
01:06:25,398 --> 01:06:26,482
Go, go, go!
1041
01:06:32,655 --> 01:06:34,490
On that particular leg of the course,
1042
01:06:34,573 --> 01:06:36,575
we probably sailed the boat
as best we'd ever sailed.
1043
01:06:36,659 --> 01:06:40,746
We were closer to perfection
than any time I'd ever been.
1044
01:06:44,250 --> 01:06:47,169
This group became so close and so tight.
1045
01:06:47,253 --> 01:06:50,256
It was basically almost on autopilot.
1046
01:06:51,382 --> 01:06:53,217
We were sailing into history.
1047
01:07:03,019 --> 01:07:05,146
We're looking for the smoke at any moment.
1048
01:07:05,229 --> 01:07:08,399
They're about to do it.
They're about to cross the line.
1049
01:07:08,482 --> 01:07:10,818
They make a final move. It's over!
1050
01:07:15,197 --> 01:07:16,824
Australia II has done it!
1051
01:07:17,575 --> 01:07:20,119
They have won the America's Cup!
1052
01:07:20,202 --> 01:07:24,165
Will you stand up, Australia?
Will you stand up and cheer?
1053
01:07:24,248 --> 01:07:29,128
Because this is the finest day
in the history of Australian sport.
1054
01:07:29,211 --> 01:07:30,796
John Bertrand, the skipper,
1055
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,924
and all of those men
out there on that boat,
1056
01:07:34,008 --> 01:07:37,678
they have written their name large
in Australian history.
1057
01:07:38,387 --> 01:07:40,598
They have won the America's Cup.
1058
01:07:43,017 --> 01:07:45,144
While I was Prime Minister,
1059
01:07:45,227 --> 01:07:48,314
I said some very wise
and important things,
1060
01:07:48,397 --> 01:07:50,816
but I don't think anything I've ever said
1061
01:07:51,358 --> 01:07:54,153
is as well remembered as when I said…
1062
01:07:54,236 --> 01:07:58,657
I tell you what, any boss who sacks anyone
for not turning up today is a bum!
1063
01:08:01,994 --> 01:08:02,828
Here we go!
1064
01:08:03,329 --> 01:08:04,997
Across Australia, people are doing this,
1065
01:08:05,081 --> 01:08:07,166
saluting the men of Australia II
with champagne.
1066
01:08:07,249 --> 01:08:08,876
And boys, they really deserve it.
1067
01:08:12,713 --> 01:08:16,342
I remember just going, "Shit,"
that it had happened.
1068
01:08:17,384 --> 01:08:22,306
Really remember John just kind
of literally slumped over the wheel.
1069
01:08:23,307 --> 01:08:26,477
Just like everything
just draining out of him.
1070
01:08:27,937 --> 01:08:32,233
It was this relief to actually win it
on behalf of your country.
1071
01:08:34,193 --> 01:08:35,736
That's, uh, that's huge.
1072
01:08:45,704 --> 01:08:46,789
So…
1073
01:08:47,540 --> 01:08:48,999
…how do you rationalize that?
1074
01:08:51,377 --> 01:08:53,170
It was quite something
1075
01:08:54,088 --> 01:08:56,632
that I never thought
could happen or would happen.
1076
01:08:58,342 --> 01:08:59,260
But it did.
1077
01:09:00,845 --> 01:09:04,557
It's a pretty powerful thing for me
to be feeling like I do now.
1078
01:09:09,478 --> 01:09:10,688
So long ago.
1079
01:09:13,315 --> 01:09:16,527
Must have affected me
more than I thought it did.
1080
01:09:18,737 --> 01:09:19,822
Anyway.
1081
01:09:24,743 --> 01:09:26,287
Everyone went nuts.
1082
01:09:38,632 --> 01:09:40,217
We lifted our heads up,
1083
01:09:40,301 --> 01:09:42,887
and there are boats
coming from everywhere.
1084
01:09:42,970 --> 01:09:45,514
Boats all around us, you know?
1085
01:09:45,598 --> 01:09:48,893
And this cacophony of noise.
1086
01:10:10,581 --> 01:10:14,668
Ah! This is the greatest moment ever!
1087
01:10:16,003 --> 01:10:17,004
Ah!
1088
01:10:17,546 --> 01:10:22,426
I thought we were history,
history the beginning of the week.
1089
01:10:22,509 --> 01:10:25,304
From the jaws of death.
1090
01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:28,724
When we were getting towed in,
1091
01:10:28,807 --> 01:10:31,143
we hoisted the Australian flag,
1092
01:10:31,894 --> 01:10:36,565
and that was a really proud moment,
that we'd done something pretty special.
1093
01:10:37,524 --> 01:10:40,611
And this is just
such a tremendously festive scene,
1094
01:10:40,694 --> 01:10:43,113
the sun now perched on the horizon
1095
01:10:43,197 --> 01:10:46,742
as Australia II makes her way
back into Newport Harbor,
1096
01:10:46,825 --> 01:10:50,454
the first challenger
ever to win the America's Cup.
1097
01:10:54,667 --> 01:10:58,545
It is a mob scene here
on the dock of Australia II.
1098
01:10:59,755 --> 01:11:02,299
The Australians have finally done it.
1099
01:11:12,768 --> 01:11:15,729
And I remember
pulling the boat out of the water,
1100
01:11:15,813 --> 01:11:18,565
and Bondy like a conductor.
1101
01:11:18,649 --> 01:11:25,364
Let's see the keel!
1102
01:11:26,156 --> 01:11:28,284
There's a very happy Alan Bond.
1103
01:11:28,367 --> 01:11:30,619
He's gonna take it up
without the curtains.
1104
01:11:30,703 --> 01:11:32,371
The keel is gonna be seen.
1105
01:11:33,289 --> 01:11:36,458
Get her up, Australia II,
and the skirt comes off.
1106
01:11:36,542 --> 01:11:38,669
Everyone saw the winged keel
for the first time.
1107
01:11:44,258 --> 01:11:47,511
It's a brilliant piece
of engineering design work,
1108
01:11:47,594 --> 01:11:48,887
extremely creative.
1109
01:11:49,805 --> 01:11:51,807
Ben Lexcen,
designer of Australia II,
1110
01:11:51,890 --> 01:11:52,725
the man who did it.
1111
01:11:52,808 --> 01:11:55,311
He has achieved his life's ambition.
1112
01:11:55,978 --> 01:11:57,563
There, believe it or not,
1113
01:11:57,646 --> 01:12:00,566
Dennis Conner wearing
his New York Yacht Club hat.
1114
01:12:01,066 --> 01:12:02,651
Dennis congratulated me.
1115
01:12:02,735 --> 01:12:05,821
Not a lot of words said,
but it was warrior to warrior.
1116
01:12:05,904 --> 01:12:07,072
There's no question about it.
1117
01:12:08,032 --> 01:12:11,201
I think Dennis does look
a little bit stunned there, David.
1118
01:12:13,078 --> 01:12:14,872
I remember shaking hands with him,
1119
01:12:14,955 --> 01:12:16,540
and he had tears in his eyes.
1120
01:12:17,207 --> 01:12:20,586
Yeah, he took it hard, hard, really hard.
1121
01:12:22,796 --> 01:12:23,672
Yeah.
1122
01:12:29,595 --> 01:12:34,058
It was a totally devastating… loss.
1123
01:12:43,233 --> 01:12:46,612
When I came in after losing the Cup,
they have a press conference,
1124
01:12:46,695 --> 01:12:50,282
and nobody from the New York Yacht Club
shows up to sit with you,
1125
01:12:50,366 --> 01:12:53,285
you got the idea
they don't like you very much anymore.
1126
01:12:58,082 --> 01:13:01,085
I'm sure they were
understandably disappointed.
1127
01:13:01,710 --> 01:13:05,839
You know, they were just
as devastated as I was in losing the Cup.
1128
01:13:05,923 --> 01:13:09,593
Today, Australia II
was just a better boat,
1129
01:13:11,595 --> 01:13:14,515
and they beat us, and we have no excuses.
1130
01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:22,314
So I'd like to, uh, at this point,
congratulate Alan Bond and Australia II.
1131
01:13:23,399 --> 01:13:26,193
They proved that they were
an outstanding boat.
1132
01:13:28,904 --> 01:13:30,364
And today was their day.
1133
01:13:33,283 --> 01:13:35,369
It was Dennis Conner's last appearance
1134
01:13:35,452 --> 01:13:36,995
as America's Cup skipper,
1135
01:13:37,079 --> 01:13:41,417
a great performer bowing out a loser
with tears in his eyes
1136
01:13:41,500 --> 01:13:42,918
and a whirl of his hat.
1137
01:13:45,462 --> 01:13:48,006
John Bertrand and his crew
have done a fine job today,
1138
01:13:48,090 --> 01:13:53,387
and I'm so pleased
that we can say not goodbye to Newport,
1139
01:13:54,012 --> 01:13:56,723
but an open invitation
to the people of Newport
1140
01:13:56,807 --> 01:14:01,103
and the people of America
to come to Perth in Western Australia
1141
01:14:01,186 --> 01:14:02,646
and try and win it back.
1142
01:14:02,729 --> 01:14:03,856
We welcome you.
1143
01:14:09,528 --> 01:14:12,239
When we actually were presented
with the America's Cup…
1144
01:14:14,074 --> 01:14:16,493
when I lifted the trophy above my head,
1145
01:14:17,870 --> 01:14:21,623
it was a boyhood dream becoming reality.
1146
01:14:28,755 --> 01:14:31,175
It was a big deal to beat America
at something
1147
01:14:31,258 --> 01:14:33,010
that America had been so dominant.
1148
01:14:33,594 --> 01:14:38,182
So this little country,
suddenly it was on the world stage.
1149
01:14:38,807 --> 01:14:42,227
Skipper John Bertrand,
you and the crew of the Australia II
1150
01:14:42,311 --> 01:14:44,980
have shown us the stuff
of which Australians are made.
1151
01:14:45,731 --> 01:14:49,776
I know your countrymen are proud of you,
and I want you to take this message back,
1152
01:14:49,860 --> 01:14:51,487
that Americans are proud too.
1153
01:14:52,070 --> 01:14:55,032
We're proud to have Australians
as our very dear friends.
1154
01:14:59,036 --> 01:15:00,746
When we got back to Australia,
1155
01:15:01,330 --> 01:15:07,252
they'd said we're gonna do a street parade
from Fremantle to Perth, which is--
1156
01:15:07,336 --> 01:15:10,172
-Twenty-two kilometers.
-Twenty-two kilometers to be precise.
1157
01:15:10,255 --> 01:15:13,800
I said, "We're gonna look like idiots
driving down Stirling Highway
1158
01:15:13,884 --> 01:15:16,553
with three people and a dog waving at ya."
1159
01:15:17,262 --> 01:15:23,685
Well, the street was lined
the whole 22 kilometers.
1160
01:15:36,198 --> 01:15:37,824
When we got to Perth,
1161
01:15:37,908 --> 01:15:42,204
there were 250,000 people there
to welcome us.
1162
01:16:05,269 --> 01:16:10,023
We're such a small nation
going against such large odds.
1163
01:16:10,107 --> 01:16:13,193
But it was that terrific determination
1164
01:16:13,277 --> 01:16:16,613
of the people of Australia
and all the guys.
1165
01:16:20,033 --> 01:16:22,995
After losing the Cup,
I had no money.
1166
01:16:23,745 --> 01:16:24,955
I was a carpet salesman.
1167
01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:29,376
I was certainly depressed.
1168
01:16:29,918 --> 01:16:34,256
But when I saw 21 different countries
challenging for the Cup in Perth,
1169
01:16:34,923 --> 01:16:37,968
maybe I should quit
feeling sorry for myself
1170
01:16:38,051 --> 01:16:40,387
and see what I could do
about winning it back.
1171
01:16:41,096 --> 01:16:43,098
Today, in San Diego, California,
1172
01:16:43,181 --> 01:16:47,477
Dennis Conner announced his comeback
for the 1987 America's Cup.
1173
01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:53,984
However, he will not be facing the skipper
who wrenched away the trophy in 1983.
1174
01:16:54,901 --> 01:16:57,154
Why aren't you in it this year?
1175
01:16:57,237 --> 01:16:58,697
The fire's out of my belly,
1176
01:16:58,780 --> 01:17:01,033
and content people
don't become world champions.
1177
01:17:01,116 --> 01:17:02,826
I'm content in that part of my life,
1178
01:17:02,909 --> 01:17:05,954
and I'm really keen and excited
to move out into new directions.
1179
01:17:06,038 --> 01:17:07,122
That's what I'm doing.
1180
01:17:07,914 --> 01:17:10,375
But for Dennis and coming back,
1181
01:17:10,459 --> 01:17:12,502
it was an opportunity
to resurrect himself.
1182
01:17:20,969 --> 01:17:23,305
There's the gun.
Stars & Stripes has done it.
1183
01:17:23,388 --> 01:17:25,307
They've won the America's Cup.
1184
01:17:26,266 --> 01:17:28,393
He has climbed yachting's Mount Everest,
1185
01:17:28,477 --> 01:17:31,521
and he has captured, once again,
yachting's holy grail.
1186
01:17:32,481 --> 01:17:34,483
Revenge for Dennis Conner.
1187
01:17:44,660 --> 01:17:47,120
I remember sitting in the ceremony
1188
01:17:47,204 --> 01:17:48,789
handing over the America's Cup,
1189
01:17:49,623 --> 01:17:53,335
and this lovely lady with a big hat said,
"Hello, Mr. Bertrand."
1190
01:17:53,418 --> 01:17:56,713
"What a beautiful day it is.
What a day of celebration."
1191
01:17:56,797 --> 01:18:00,133
And I looked at her and I said,
"Madam, you have no idea…
1192
01:18:03,387 --> 01:18:07,891
how easy it was to lose
and how hard it was to win."
1193
01:18:24,491 --> 01:18:26,159
Bond's property interests stretch
1194
01:18:26,243 --> 01:18:28,787
from Sydney to America
to London and Hong Kong.
1195
01:18:28,870 --> 01:18:32,499
It is an empire worth $10,000 million.
1196
01:18:34,584 --> 01:18:37,796
We want all the crew
to come back out. Sing it for them.
1197
01:18:47,013 --> 01:18:49,474
Probably the greatest
Prime Minister of Australia.
1198
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He relates to the people.
The public love him.
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What does one of our
greatest prime ministers do?
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He sculled it. Listen to them.
They're going, "Scull, scull, scull!"
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And the great man, Bobby Hawke, nailed it.
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He said, "Thank you very much, boys.
Cheers."
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Ben Lexcen, designer, perfectionist,
and his Toyota Tarago,
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a design that pleases even Ben Lexcen.
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Somebody did it right again.
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And at mark number four,
it's American Magic.
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She turns toward home
at 50 knots per hour.
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This is it!
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Welcome to the 2021 America's Cup.
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Allegations against one basketball ref
of betting the outcomes of games
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is rocking the NBA.
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Man, did I fuck my life up.
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Just like the feel-good hit of the summer,
the Manti Te'o story isn't real.
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Cruel, twisted hoax.
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It was the longest winning streak
in the history of sport.
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This is the finest day
in the history of Australian sports.
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AND1 was making millions of dollars,
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but did they respect us?
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AND1 basketball, baby!
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Shut your fuckin' mouth,
keep it between us.
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Stick to the fuckin' story.
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It does not get any stranger
than this one.
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Donaghy is under investigation…
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It's front-page news all over town.
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She physically did not exist
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outside of being
Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend.
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And I was like, "Boy, that would be
fuckin' crazy if it were true."