Talk:America's Cup/Archive 1

Links of boat names
It seems odd to me to have the boat names linked to the topic that has that same name. There is one broken link that has (yacht) after the name, but all the others are either broken or linked to something that has very little if anything to do with the boat. I think that the boat names should be unlinked. nroose Talk 12:48, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I'll do this myself if nobody takes it upon themselves soon. Adding to watchlist and tasks to do. Avriette 05:29, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

To Be Added (moved from main page)
(Much more to cover yet)
 * Rules
 * TV Coverage
 * One World's member's possession of Team New Zealand design secrets
 * Bias favouring the Defender.
 * Lifting the Skirts ceremony
 * Controversy in the 2003 America's Cup, with professionally written death threats to defecting sailors, terrorist cyanide threats, Team NZ hiring private investigators to investigate whether Alinghi was using drugs, Alinghi syndicate being fined $10,000 by police for invading practice zones and intimidating/physically ramming Team NZ boats while TNZ was practicing

I moved this stuff from the main page nroose Talk 06:34, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Deed of Gift
I added the info about the Deed of Gift and the Deed itself so I removed the "Trust Deed" from the list above. --R S Tsuchiya 01:23, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, I think the deed belongs on Wikisource, with a link from here, but I'm not experienced in moving things there. dramatic 08:49, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

According to this section a controversy regarding the reported and actual hull length of the challenger in 1800 caused the deed to be rewritten. I do not know the appropriate date for this event, but obviously 1800 is incorrect. Someone who does know the proper year should fix this error.

History/previous challenges
The early races were held in New York. Can anyone find which races were NY before moving to Newport, RI?

We also need someone with references to do fact checking, add references. - Amgine 21:47, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The matrix of the challengers and defenders as of August 6, 2006 is correct. After the 1920 match, the match was moved to Newport, Rhode Island. --R S Tsuchiya

Sir Peter Blake
Was it not the late Sir Peter Blake who skippered Team New Zealand to victory in 1995 in San Diego? Not the traiterous Russel Coutts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.89.34.82 (talk) 07:47, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Coutts skippered every race of the '95 challenge. But Blake was aboard for each race as well.

Lists of yachts involved
Given the increasing size of the article (a good thing, don't get me wrong), should we move the length challenger/defender list to a separate page, say List of America's Cup contestants? Also, we could have a List of American's Cup defender contestants and List of American's Cup challenger contestants (which is a bit better than the semi-anachronistic List of Luis Vuitton Cup contestants), to cover all the yachts which competed in any given year, but didn't feature in the main matchup. Or perhaps they could all go in one page, separated into sections? Noel (talk) 15:18, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Ditto for the 2003 and 2007 events; the details would be best handled in separate articles, with only summaries here. Noel (talk) 03:22, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Oldest active international trophy?
Is it really the oldest international "trophy" available. It predates the FA cup? Is the FA cup an international trophy. If that qualifies why not the Grand National horse race? 68.71.35.93 03:09, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * According to the FA Cup article, the it was first awarded in 1872, while the America's Cup was awarded first in 1851. The Grand National article states that it was first contested in 1836, but it may not have had the same trophy like the FA Cup and the AC have. --rogerd 05:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

What about one of the events at Henley Royal Regatta? The regatta started in 1839 and the Grand was contested that year and any amateur club can enter (http://www.hrr.co.uk/history/trophies.asp). It has been won by international crews 43 times so it is definitely an international trophy.


 * The FA Cup in use now is the third trophy... the first and the second were stolen... The oldest international sporting event is the Real Tennis world championship, first held in 1740. excuse my very bad English 84.99.239.149 00:19, 20 August 2006 (UTC) from WP.fr

Apostrophe!
Surely the apostrophe does not belong? Surely?

That apostrophe means possession. This means that it is America's Cup; the cup belongs to America. Firstly, it doesn't, and secondly this surely isn't how it's meant to read? It's meant to concern The Americas, as in North and South America, isn't it? And you don't need an apostrophe for that. It should be The Americas Cup shouldn't it? 81.153.182.67 17:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


 * If you would take the trouble to read the first paragraph, you would know that the trophy is named for the schooner America, the boat that won the first race. So when they say "America's Cup", they are not referring to the country or the continent, but the schooner America.  --rogerd 19:48, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

The apostrophe definitely belongs. The America's Cup is called such because it was the cup won by the yacht 'America' in 1851. --R S Tsuchiya

IACC split
Currently, International Americas Cup Class redirects here. The class should have its own article, similar to the J-class yacht or 12-metre class articles. There have been IACC reggatas that are separate from the AC. --rogerd 16:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Dear rogerd, Sorry about the delay. Have not been on Wikipedia for several weeks. I agree with you. A stand-alone article about IACC yachts should be created. AmerCupFan


 * Done. All of you AC fans please review and correct, add to, or whatever.  Especially info about the IACC worlds.  --rogerd 23:05, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Frequency
I might have missed it but nowhere in the article did I notice a mention of the frequency of the race. Is it held every 4 years such as the World Cup or the Olympics or is it not as structured as that? A sentence or two on this would be appreciated. Sparky132 20:23, 30 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It's not as structured as that. In the old days it basically happened when a new challenger emerged. Since the 1980s there has been an attempt to make things more regular, but the Big Boat challenge and later the New Zealand victory threw things out of whack (different seasons and all). It's hard to summarise accurately and concisely but I'm sure someone will add a more detailed explanation soon. Lisiate 21:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Sections / Seperate articles on 2007 teams? Seperate article for 2007?
I notice that the article does not have much information regarding the current America's Cup - should a new article perhaps be created which give more information regarding the current competition? On top of that would more information about each team be a good idea? Personally I can contribute a lot regarding Team Shosholoza (Many of the team members are members of yacht club I am a member of and I often visit / can easily get information from Royal Cape Yacht Club).

I was thinking something along the lines of what the Rugby World Cup article has --kilps 19:51, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I for one think that's a good idea. Lisiate 21:29, 19 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I have began work on this with the Team Shosholoza article and I have added a list of teams competing in the 2007 cup (please could those who know about different teams work on their respective articles - I will continue to work on the Shosholoza one), perhaps a separate article will become necessary for 2007 but I think for now we need to build up the section --kilps 20:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

error
Michael Fay had nothing to do with the 1995 winning challenge for the America's Cup. by this stage he had left NZ and I think was living in the UK>

That challenge was led by Sir Peter Blake, representing Royal NZ Yacht Squadron. All of Fay's challenges were from some other club, Mercury Bay I think it was. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.137.40.195 (talk • contribs). 09:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Too much detail?
I guess we are getting a little unencyclopaedic reporting on each race of the current series. Would experienced Wikipedians care to comment on the best direction to take this article? - sub articles on each series? - an article under current affairs on the 2003 series? user:dramatic

Absolutely. Don't put a different article, but put everything down the bottom of the page. Well done. Definetly comment on as many races as you can! Keep the good deeds up. --Conner5553 06:08, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

New logo for the page?
The main picture for this article is pretty boring and uninspiring for new viewers who do not know much about the 'Cup. Anyone know what's the copyright situation around the "Blazing Cup" 32nd America's Cup logo? The Red and black one. --Conner5553 05:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


 * IMHO, the Cup photo now here: Image:America's Cup.jpg is the most appropriate one - this is an encyclopaedia article about the America's Cup after all. Generally logos are copyright to somebody and can only be used in Wikipedia under a fair use rationale and then only if they are used to directly demonstrate what the logo is about.  Can you point me to a url with the logo?  Perhaps it could go into the 2007 America's Cup article.  &mdash;Moondyne 08:47, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Outcome of the 2007 America's Cup
It's pretty obvious that TEAM NZ are going to win. That's obvious, fact. Also a fact is that Alinghi is an alright team, so they are going to put up a challenge (which is ironic, because that challenge infers with their "Defender" status. Therefore the 4 points to them seems alright. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Conner5553 (talk • contribs).
 * Emirates Team New Zealand lead the rankings to select the challenger for the America's Cup competition. All the challengers have been racing together over the last two years and accrued bonus points according to their results.  Alinghi has been allowed to race in the defender selection races in order to provide Alinghi with competitive racing to tune boat and crew and also to give the challengers a benchmark against the current holder of the America's Cup.  The final challenger selection races started on 16 April 2007 (but were posponed due to lack of wing and again postponed on 17 April for the same reasons).  Alinghi now stands down until the America's Cup competition starts.  The challenger candidates will compete in the final series of races to select the challenger. In the first two rounds of the final challenger selection series each team competes against the other teams and the winner is awarded two points to be added to bonus points earned previously.  Emirates TNZ has earned 4 bonus points and the next three boats have earned 3 points each.  The bonus point system is set in place to reward on-going performance rather than risk a good one off performance in the final challenger selection series which might not be repeated in the America's Cup competition due to different conditions etc etc.  Alinghi are the defenders of the America's Cup.  Emirates TNZ lead the next three boats by only one point in the defender selection and there is still a lot of racing to be done by the challengers.  Boatman 12:51, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Louis Vutton Cup for AC 2007
According to the article, the team with the highest score at the end of the acts wins the Louis Vutton Cup and is declared the challenger. But it appears Alinghi is also taking part in the acts. So what happens if they have the most points? Nil Einne 19:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Nil Einne. I think that Alinghi is competing so that they avoid the troubles that New Zealand had in the last AC regatta. Through their glory years of the 90's the NZ team had pretty much stayed together in the important competitions. But with the Alighi's team raid of some of the best of the NZ team members one of the downfalls of team NZ was that they just didn't have enough competitive races under their belt when the last AC got down to two teams. In the 70's and 80's when America held the cup there were usually four or more boats sailing against each other in a defender's regatta before the AC finals got going. NZ's first defense did not have this but, as I said, the bulk of their championship team were still together. In their second defense of the cup they simply had their two yachts competing against each other, as they had done before, near the same courses where the the LV cup was being contested. In the upcoming AC Switzerland, ie Alinghi, only has one yacht sailing so I think that they are trying to keep their crew (which has had some important personel changes from their winning team) up to competitive snuff by racing in these acts. Whether this gives them an advantage or not remains to be seen. Of course, I could be wrong and if some other sailing wikimember can straighten us out it will be much appreciated.MarnetteD | Talk 19:16, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


 * For the 2007 America's Cup Alinghi (the defender) and Oracle BMW Racing (the Challenger of Record) got together to see how the competition could be improved for the sponsors, competitors and spectators. A key decision was to have a much longer build up over several years with the challenger selection races held in different locations with a focus on accessibility/visibility of the racing from a spectator and sponsor perspective.  Another key decision was that the final America's Cup races between Alinghi and the defender must be competitive to satisfy sponsors and spectators (in the past there had been too many 5-0 series results).  If all the challengers had intensive racing over two years and the defender had to race and tune up against whatever was left then there was a posibility that even with a good boat and good sailors they would probably not gel together as a good combination in 2007 (reference the problems TNZ had in the last conpetition which could have been avoided if more top level racing in all conditions had been available).  Alinghi stands downin the final challenger selection races to prepare for the Cup races. Boatman 12:51, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

2007 America's Cup link
A link to the 2007 America's Cup has been reverted from the top of the page. While this event is current, I think (and so does Wallie) that there should be a prominent link at the top of the page (see Cricket World Cup). This can be removed at the end of the event. I'll change it in 24 hours if no one objects. - Ctbolt 01:13, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Featured article
A user has suggested that this article should be worked on to elevate it to Featured article status. I'm no expert on the AC but am happy to help. As a start, I've moved some duplicated information into sub-article at International Americas Cup Class (formula) or removed it as it was already at 2007 America's Cup (table of boats). Several other issues stand out for me and need adressing: &mdash;Moondyne 05:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * References and referencing. All featured articles must have (and to a lesser degree, Good articles) in-line citations.  Currently the article has one.  It is absolutely vital that detailed references be provided against every substantive statement.  As a first step, someone should go through the article and add a fact tag against every citable statement.  The next step is to reasearch and gradually replace these tags with properly formatted references.
 * The 2003 section needs to be expanded and possibly moved into a separate sub-article

Moondyne, these are fantastic ideas. I am absolutely keen and let me pledge my will to make this happen. It has been suggested by wikipedia higher-ups that if we were to develop the Louis Vitton Cup, they then may feature that. I think getting this page, the America's Cup article, up to date is a better idea; To get an article to Feature Article caliber it needs hard work. If we were to put some effort into the America's Cup now and over the next two months, come late June - and thus the America's Cup Match itself, the article could be ready and it could be featured. A date where all the hard work will be rewarded.

Is anyone else interested in chipping in? --Conner5553 12:07, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

"Newport" bad link?
I don't know anything about America's Cup, but those "Newport" links are either wrong or those flags should be Welsh. Was Newport Beach intended? -- 68.228.65.220 07:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing out the error. Fixed links to Newport, Rhode Island  Boatman 08:37, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Slight change in number of participations per country.
Slight change in number of participations per country.

According to the extremely reliable BMW Oracle blog, the number of challenges from England should be 10 while Scotland had 2 instead of the previously mentioned 1.

I made the change and hope it is correct.

Here is the link to the story: http://blog.bmworacleracing.com/stories/3318235/


 * Also Switzerland hasn't ever lost a cup as last time was the first tiume they raced at all. Lisiate 05:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Apostrophe type
I know this is an extremely minor matter, but why is the article title using a ’ instead of a '. Evil Monkey - Hello 04:41, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know why it was moved, but I suspect the reason it wasn't reverted (ironically, a robot corrected the resulting double redirects later) was just an oversight. I've fixed the page now to match standard Wikipedia practice. Schrei 06:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Images
I hope the images I am adding to this article and other related yachting articles are OK. I have specific permission from the photographer for use in Wikipedia. Note that I had a very tough time finding good images some of these items (specifically of 1988 Stars & Stripes), and he had some excellent ones that he had taken. -Joseph (Talk) 04:23, 7 October 2004 (UTC)

New York Yacht Club Burgee
Why is this flag on the left being shown in the list when the burgee for the NYYC is the one on the right? San Diego shows correctly but what is that odd flag in the club burgee's place? CompRhetoric 23:13, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

T.O.M.Sopwith and the Endeavours
Surely Sopwith's challenges should be mentioned, together with the famous quotation after a protest about a controversial right-of-way incident associated with a Sopwith challenge I think: "Britannia rules the waves, and America waives the rules". GilesW 17:31, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Propose that 33rd Edition is the subject of a separate linked article

 * Recommend that this section is removed and becomes a separate comprehensive article which grows as the saga unfolds on the basis that a separate article is used for the 32nd edition etc. There would be a link from the main America's Cup article. Is everyone in agreement Boatman (talk) 15:54, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

The cup's size
I remember reading somewhere that the cup is so large due to a miscommunication of the units as imperial when they were metric. Can anyone confirm this and, if true, write it in? porge 12:27, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Seems unlikely, given that the Cup was made in England in the nineteenth century and neither England or America used the metric system back then. Lisiate 22:31, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

i think that the confusion between metric/imperial realtes to one of the international rugyby trophies could be bledisloe cup, tri-nations or world cup not entirely sure on it though.

I am led to believe the error that the section author refers to actually led to the cup being significantly SMALLER than the proposed article? Aerodrome (talk) 12:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Louis Vutton Cup
According to the intro
 * In 1995 as a response to multiple challengers and questions as to how the next challenger would be selected, the Louis Vuitton Cup was created as a fair way to determine who will become the official challenger of the America's Cup.

This doesn't agree with info later on in the article or in the LV Cup article. From memory, something did occur in 1995 in relation to the LV Cup but I'm not sure what Nil Einne 19:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

The Louis Vuitton Cup was first awarded to the winner of the challenger selection series in 1983. The multiple challenger format was inaugurated for the 1970 match. R S Tsuchiya.

I remember when the LV Cup name came into being but I am wondering whether, in the period after 1983, but before New Zealand's wins if there was a name for a cup in the competition for the defender of the America's Cup. This would have been when the US was fielding four or five yachts to compete against each other. I thought I remembered a specific name for the series when the race was held of the coast of San Diego, but my memory plays so many tricks anymore that I could be wrong. Thanks ahead of time to any wikimembers who can help.MarnetteD | Talk 19:16, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

There was a trophy awarded to the winner of the defender series in 1992 and 1995. It was called the Citizen Cup and was sponsored by the watch-maker. It was obviated for the 1999/2000 series when Team New Zealand / RNZYS assumed the sole defender status. Aerodrome (talk) 12:06, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

history - omission
The history section does not seem to mention that for many years the race rules stipulated that the challenging yachts had to sail to the USA on their own hulls. That is, the yachts could not be shipped over as they are now. This contributed greatly to the winning streak of the USA, as a yacht that was robust enough to cross the Atlantic or Pacific oceans was not quick enough to perform well in races. I don't know if this is accurate, but if it is accurate it must be mentioned in the article so that the winning streak of the USA can be put into proper perspective. --B.d.mills 13:00, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The yacht America sailed to Great Britain on her own bottom to win the cup. It therefore made sense that challengers be required to do the same.--Paul (talk) 15:29, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


 * It is accurate that for many years the rules stipulated that challenging yachts had to cross to the USA on their own hulls. It is often mentioned that this had a potential negative effect on the design.  This is possibly so in the very early years when the competitors boats were primarily the owners yacht with fitted accomodation etc etc and went cruising as well as racing.  Certainly come the times of of J-Class Endeavour I and Endeavour II their designs were certainly not influenced by the need to cross the Atlantic.  For the crossing the normal mast was substituted by a mast more appropriate for the Atlantic rather than racing and the hulls received some internal bracing to add strength.  They were towed across at the time of the year when the weather was most favourable. The mast for the crossing was in essence a jury rig in case the tow broke and it was not possible to reconnect.  You have highlighted a key submission which needs to be added to the article.  When I get time to write this in a more structured way I will add to the article (unless I am beaten to it!!)  Boatman 13:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Burgee_of_nyyc.svg‎
The NYCC burgee is copyrighted by the club and no permission is granted to use it. Please do not re-add. Per OTRS ticket. - JodyBtalk 18:58, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I suspect that the burgees of ALL of the clubs mentioned here are copyrighted and there is no permission to use them. If you look at the licensing for the burgee images they all say "I am the creator and I give permission" which may be true for the bitmap, but is most certainly not true of the copyrighted image. Consequently, I believe all of the yacht club burgees should be removed from the table.

Clarification of the Name of the Cup
The original name of the Cup has been a contentious issue in the article. Because I'm tired of correcting and re-correcting, allow me to share with you the story behind the name of the Cup. Thank you for your patience! :)

At a Royal Yacht Squadron meeting on May 9, 1851, it was decided, among other things, to have a race around the Isle of Wight open to all nations--the prize being a 'RYS Cup of' 100 sovereigns. 100 sovereigns is equal to 100 pounds sterling. The RYS minutes of May 9 and July 11, 1851 refer to the cup as the 'RYS Cup' or 'RYS Cup of' 100 sovereigns. In addition to the minutes, a flyer that announced the regatta also refers to the cup as the 'RYS Cup of' 100 sovereigns. I have not discovered any evidence that supports the claim that the Cup was originally called the one hundred guinea(s) cup by the Royal Yacht Squadron.

After the yacht 'America' won the trophy, the American winners dubbed their prize the 'One Hundred Guinea(s) Cup' for reasons unknown. Incidently, 100 guineas is worth about 105 pounds. The name 'One Hundred Guinea(s) Cup' persisted. In fact, on the very trophy itself, an inscription made by the Americans refers to the trophy as the: 'one hundred guinea cup' won by the 'America' in 1851 being offered as a 'challenge cup'.

The Cup was subsquently known simulteneously as the 'America Cup', or the 'Queens Cup', the 'hundred guinea cup', and, of course, the America's Cup. Today the Cup is officially called the 'America's Cup' without italicizing the name of the schooner.

--R S Tsuchiya August 6, 2006.


 * you may like the 1902 complete list of inscriptions on the Cup and a 1887 hi-res picture here.Nuttyrave. Zoom in using the + sign at the top. Thanks for contributing. (talk) 20:45, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Deed of Gift 2
The text of "the original Deed of Gift 1857", on Team New Zeal;and's web-site should perhaps be integrated. How about a reference?.


 * Both the First and Second Deeds of Gift are now available on Wikisource.--Paul (talk) 19:33, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

The America's Cup is not a "world championship" for sailing clubs
I have once again reverted the addition of to the bottom of the article. Since there is a disagreement as to the applicability of this class to this article, I'd like to explain why "America's Cup" is not a "world championship" for sailing clubs, like World Cup soccer is a "world championship" for soccer clubs.

The America's Cup is a competition for a particular trophy controlled by a charitable trust which specifies that the cup "shall be preserved as a perpetual challenge Cup for friendly competition between foreign countries." This means one club has the cup, and another club can challenge to try to take it away. In the actual competition for the Cup there is no league of sailing clubs, there are no elimination rounds, and for the first 120 years of challenges, there were only two clubs involved at a time.

Since 1973, there has been a side agreement between the defender and the challenging club to allow multiple challengers by running a challenger selection series and ultimate substitution of the winner of that series as the "challenger of record" leading to the sailing of the America's Cup race. However, the challenger selection series (most recently run by and named after Louis Vuitton) is not an official part of the America's cup trust. Indeed, in 1988 there was an America's Cup event with only two teams, and the 33rd edition of the Cup may well turn out the same. Under the terms of the trust there is no reason to suppose that any given America's Cup regatta will involve any more than two yacht clubs.

It is inaccurate to suggest that America's cup in any way resembles an organized sport, spanning the world, with a crowning competition.--Paul (talk) 22:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Agree 100%. The World Match Racing Tour is a closer fit for Sailings "world club champions", but even that has issues. Mattlore (talk) 04:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I suggest section J-class_yacht be merged into section America's_Cup to address the {expand-section} tag. Please advise or proceed adequately. Nuttyrave (talk) 01:42, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * That would be a good start, but it only covers two (maybe three) of the 16 pre-war challenges and would have to be boiled down quite a bit so that it was in balance with the short summaries of the other matches. Also, I don't think the J-class material should really be merged, more like "mined" for a bit of AC material, no? I'll try to add some material covering from 1870 to 1920. Feel free to use the J-Class material to expand the period of the '30s --Paul (talk) 14:39, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Reorganization of challengers and defenders table
I think the current table of America's Cup matches suffers from a few problems. To fix these problems, I suggest reorganizing the table as follows:
 * 1) The challenging yacht club is only shown by a burgee, the names should be spelled out.
 * 2) The burgees are all probably here illegally (see above, under NYYC Burgee) and should be removed.
 * 3) The nationality should be associated with the Yacht Clubs (as under the Deed they are the ones challenging and defending).
 * 4) The teams/owners of the challenging and defending yachts are not always shown.
 * 5) It would be more clear if the Result were the last column.

The current table looks like this: Comments? --Paul (talk) 21:00, 13 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks good, maybe change the "X Yacht,Owner" categories to "X Yacht,Owner/Team" or something along those lines? Not sure if Team is the right word TBH. Overall a big improvement Mattlore (talk) 23:35, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * nyyc.org states the burgee is not copyrighted, but a registered trademark. Are we using the correct terminology? Maybe further inquiries have to be made, so I have contacted both NYYC and Burgee Data Archives to clear the legal status/use aspect of the burgee/all burgees for the use here. It probably rates as fair use like the SONY logo, but that has to be specified. At any rate I have also invited NYYC to formally authorize/deny wikipedia to host the image.
 * Table --> agreed on all counts. Please note that information has to be added, such as syndicate manager or largest shareholder (JP. Morgan) and challenging yacht club as per 1987. As a preference, I would even push for a single line display:
 * {| class="wikitable" style=font-size:11px

!Year !Location !Defending club !Defender !Challenging club !Challenger !Result
 * 2010
 * N/A
 * Société Nautique de Genève
 * N/A
 * 🇺🇸 Golden Gate Yacht Club
 * BMW Oracle Racing, USA
 * N/A
 * 2007
 * 🇪🇸 Valencia
 * Société Nautique de Genève
 * Alinghi, SUI-100
 * 🇳🇿 Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron
 * Team New Zealand, NZL-92
 * 5-2
 * 1987
 * 🇦🇺 Fremantle
 * 🇦🇺 Royal Perth Yacht Club
 * Kevin Parry, Kookaburra III
 * 🇺🇸 San Diego Yacht Club
 * Sail America, Stars & Stripes 87
 * 5-2
 * 1937
 * 🇺🇸 Newport
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * Harold S. Vanderbilt, Ranger
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Royal Yacht Squadron
 * Sir Thomas Sopwith, Endeavour II
 * 4-0
 * 1901
 * 🇺🇸 New York City
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * J. Pierpont Morgan, Columbia
 * Royal Ulster Yacht Club
 * Sir Thomas Lipton, Shamrock II
 * 3-0
 * }
 * Nuttyrave (talk) 00:14, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Royal Ulster Yacht Club
 * Sir Thomas Lipton, Shamrock II
 * 3-0
 * }
 * Nuttyrave (talk) 00:14, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

(outdent) The single-line table does look good, but it requires that you know what different flags look like (though you can mouse over for a 'tool tip' explanation). I don't think the yacht club burgees are needed regardless of their legal status. It is the nationality of the club that matters, and burgees just clutter up the table without adding anything germane. I also think the table would be cleaner without the flag icons in the Location column; for 97% of the rows, it's just duplication. --Paul (talk) 01:03, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * {| class="wikitable" style=font-size:11px

!Year !Location !Defending club !Defender !Challenging club !Challenger !Result
 * 2010
 * N/A
 * Société Nautique de Genève
 * N/A
 * 🇺🇸 Golden Gate Yacht Club
 * BMW Oracle Racing, USA
 * N/A
 * 2007
 * Valencia, Spain
 * Société Nautique de Genève
 * Alinghi, SUI-100
 * 🇳🇿 Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron
 * Team New Zealand, NZL-92
 * 5-2
 * 1987
 * Fremantle, Australia
 * 🇦🇺 Royal Perth Yacht Club
 * Kevin Parry, Kookaburra III
 * 🇺🇸 San Diego Yacht Club
 * Sail America, Stars & Stripes 87
 * 0-4
 * 1983
 * Newport, USA
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * Freedom-Liberty, Liberty
 * 🇦🇺 Royal Perth Yacht Club
 * Alan Bond, Australia II
 * 3-4
 * 1937
 * Newport, USA
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * Harold S. Vanderbilt, Ranger
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Royal Yacht Squadron
 * Sir Thomas Sopwith, Endeavour II
 * 4-0
 * 1934
 * Newport, USA
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * Harold S. Vanderbilt, Rainbow
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Royal Yacht Squadron
 * Sir Thomas Sopwith, Endeavour
 * 4-2
 * 1920
 * New York City, USA
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * J. Pierpont Morgan, Resolute
 * Royal Ulster Yacht Club
 * Sir Thomas Lipton, Shamrock IV
 * 3-2
 * 1903
 * New York City, USA
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * Cornelius Vanderbilt, Reliance
 * Royal Ulster Yacht Club
 * Sir Thomas Lipton, Shamrock III
 * 3-0
 * 1901
 * New York City, USA
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * J. Pierpont Morgan, Columbia
 * Royal Ulster Yacht Club
 * Sir Thomas Lipton, Shamrock II
 * 3-0
 * 1899
 * New York City, USA
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * Edwin Dennison Morgan, Columbia
 * Royal Ulster Yacht Club
 * Sir Thomas Lipton, Shamrock
 * 3-0
 * }
 * by the way - the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda was the 1987 challenger of record, even if it did not pass selection series.Nuttyrave (talk) 01:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 1899
 * New York City, USA
 * 🇺🇸 New York Yacht Club
 * Edwin Dennison Morgan, Columbia
 * Royal Ulster Yacht Club
 * Sir Thomas Lipton, Shamrock
 * 3-0
 * }
 * by the way - the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda was the 1987 challenger of record, even if it did not pass selection series.Nuttyrave (talk) 01:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * by the way - the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda was the 1987 challenger of record, even if it did not pass selection series.Nuttyrave (talk) 01:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Interesting point, do we need/want to list the challenger of record's? Mattlore (talk) 01:19, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The Challenger of Record (CoR) is a non-entity America's Cup-wise. The agreements governing multi-challenger events specify that the winner of the challenger selection series (CSS) will be the Challenger for the America's Cup. All of the losing clubs/teams in the CSS become non-entities regardless if they were CoR or not.  The sub articles about each match would be a good place to mention that info (for those years where there was a Cor. --Paul (talk) 01:28, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * acknowledged. I fixed the tables for use on Internet Explorer with font size. Still looks good?Nuttyrave (talk) 01:48, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks fine.--Paul (talk) 02:44, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 1899 defense led by Edwin Dennison Morgan, a cousin of J.P. Morgan - from "Temple to the Wind" book. Nuttyrave (talk) 01:59, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

multihulls??? since when does the cup allow that??
i'm seeing news videos of multihulls being launched for the next america's cup - I thought it was monohull only - since when are multihulls allowed and where does it say it in this article. 75.135.140.6 (talk) 17:09, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The Deed of Gift of the America's Cup says that the AC shall be a sailboat race. To understand the current Cup cycle, you should read 1988 America's Cup, and 33rd America's Cup. Some folks think this is the most exciting development in AC racing since 1903! --Paul (talk) 17:34, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I echo the question”where does it say this in the article”(75.135.140.6). I came her to find the rules of the contest and go away disappointed. Petethewhistle (talk) 23:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)


 * If you read this article, and the Deed of Gift of the America's Cup, 1988 America's Cup, and 33rd America's Cup articles, you will understand why the 33rd AC will be raced in 90-ft. multihulls. If you go away disappointed, it is only because you don't want to put out the effort to learn.--Paul (talk) 00:21, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Oldest active trophy in international sport?
The oldest world championship is "Jeu de paume", held yearly since 1740. Am I missing something, or is the "Claim to fame" clearly false?--Hehiheho (talk) 09:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Does Jeu de paume have a trophy ? If it does, how old is the trophy ? Wizzy&hellip; &#9742; 11:18, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * If the Jeu de Paume World Championship is held to be the oldest trophy in international sport, maybe international (foreign, i.e. non-French) contestants and the dates they participated should be mentioned, that way they could be compared with America's 1851 entry in a foreign race. Nuttyrave (talk) 17:31, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

More fuel to this argument are the Henley Royal Regatta trophies. http://www.hrr.co.uk/pdisp.php?pid=60, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Challenge_Cup, clearly older too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.120.117.2 (talk) 18:50, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

America's Cup in the media
I added to the "In The Media" section that the America's Cup was featured as a major part in the 1992 movie WIND but someone felt that it was considered trivia. Given the limited amount of times the America's Cup has been used in movies or television I would think it being used as a major part of a major motion picture would be more than trivia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozyman (talk • contribs) 04:41, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Challenger for the America's Cup
Strictly speaking, the "Challenger of Record" for the America's Cup is phantom invented by the New York Yacht Club to allow managing a multi-challenger cup. All of the challengers listed in the table of challengers and defenders are those that actually sailed in the final America's Cup match. The challenger selection series is not the America's Cup, and it is impossible to list the challenger in this article until the CSS is completed in 2013. --Paul (talk) 05:06, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Paul, I think that a strict interpretation of the Deed of Gift leads to a slightly different conclusion. The challenger, according to the DoG, is the club that submits the first challenge and then negotiates the conditions of the races with the defender.  In the agreed protocol, it is customary to have a challenger selection process, at the end of which the winner of that process replaces the challenger.  That is, for now the challenger is the Swedish Yacht Club.  After the challenger selection, that club will be replaced as challenger by whoever wins the challenger selection.  Obviously we cannot explain all of that in the table.  So I would propose that in the column "Challenging club" we list "Swedish Yacht Club" and in the column "Challenger" we leave "TBD".  Comments?--Gautier lebon (talk) 07:23, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree, perhaps we could list it as "Swedish Yacht Club (CoR)" to make the difference clearer? But at the moment KSS is the challenging club. Mattlore (talk) 20:54, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

NZ Black Magic Challenge & Subsequent Defense
I find it hard to understand why New Zealands 1995 win and subsequent succesful defense are not mentioned further in the article. The 2000 regatta in Auckland was the first successful defense of the cup outside of the US in the Cups history. It seems to me that the Australian's capture of the cup in 1983, NZ's capture in 1995 and the Swiss capture in 2003 are all significant events and worthy of more than single line mentions — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.237.90.196 (talk) 01:56, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

America's Cup is Not the oldest Cup in Sport
The America's Cup is not the oldest Cup in international sport. That distinction belongs to the Grand Challenge Cup administered by the Stewards of the Henley Royal Regatta.That cup is also a 100 Guinea trophy and was provided by the townspeople of Henley on Thames. The first race was in the summer of 1839 and has been in competition ever since with the exception of the war years (WW I and WW II). It was open to all crews of "gentlemen rowers" which practically meant amateurs, in eight oared boats. Since England was the dominant force in the early years of competitive rowing it was some years before a foreign crew from Belgium was able to best the British and win the cup although many foreign crews tried. Coincidentally, in 1851, the year of the race won by the yacht America, HRH Prince Albert became the patron of the regatta, hence the Royal in the formal name of the regatta. The Stewards Challenge Cup was instituted in 1841 and was for four oared boats and also pre-dates the America's Cup.

The first non-English competitor at Henley also pre-dates the first challenge to the newly created America's Cup in 1870, even though the Henley Royal Regatta was open to any foreign entry that met the amateur status of the competitors since the formalization of the regatta. An attempt to add language to the rules restricting entries to the Henley Royal Regatta was proposed in 1901 but decisively rejected, thereby keeping the original rules of entry allowing non-English rowing teams to compete for the Grand Challenge Cup as well as the Stewards Challenge Cup.

--198.228.212.208 (talk) 05:43, 19 November 2011 (UTC)World Rower   
 * The Henley regatta Grand Challenge Cup may predate the America's Cup, and the regatta per se may be international today, but it was awarded for races that did not include overseas participants until 1870, did not include foreign participants until 1878, and all editions have not been systematically international. The America's Cup trophy however, despite changing names and rules since 1851, has been awarded for races which by definition must include entrants from different nations since 1851. In 1851 the trophy was awarded for a race which happened to include different nations, so in this context and by consensus, the America's Cup is indeed the oldest trophy in international sport. signed:Nuttyrave (talk) 13:49, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The statement that the Cup is the oldest trophy in sports has been challenged, so I found a reference and removed the challenge.--Gautier lebon (talk) 10:28, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Challengers and defenders
The table "Challengers and defenders" would be a heck of allot more useful if it told you who the winner was each year. I know you can tease that information out of it by comparing who had the cup different years (gotta know the winner defended in the next race) or by figuring out what the score order was, but shouldn't it be more straight forward than that in a common knowledge encyclopedia? 67.108.95.98 (talk) 03:08, 18 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you are correct though when I looked, it seemed rather obvious which were the winning yachts. How would you improve upon that?


 * --Trappist the monk (talk) 13:38, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

I have just looked the winning boat is in bold although maybe more of the text linked to the winner could be in Bold to make this more obvious. Adding more columns to the table isn't really an option. See whether anyone has a good idea! (User talk:Yachty4000) 19:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I added explanatory note that the winning yacht name is in bold. Mojoworker (talk) 22:43, 18 April 2012 (UTC)


 * The template provides a WP-wide standard to indicate which cell of a table contains win information.  I've applied this to the table ftw.
 * --Trappist the monk (talk) 16:16, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * A better solution. That's good to know about the won template. Mojoworker (talk) 17:49, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * OK, call me dense but it took a while to figure out what was done to show the winners, I assume its GREEN=WINNER. I would suggest following WP:LIST per "Lead paragraphs in embedded lists" - "non-obvious characteristics." The list could use an introduction paragraph explaining the list characteristics re: GREEN=WINNER, winners defend next race, races are held (when?), the "Score" column lists (points?), (races?).... I assume its races. 67.108.95.98 (talk) 13:29, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

British English
I've reverted a bold change that converted the article to British English. I think that change is contentious enough that it should be discussed here first. While the first race was indeed around the Isle of Wight in Britain, that was the sole race held there and they've never won the cup. While it was at the New York Yacht Club from 1851 to 1983 in the longest winning streak in the history of sport, and again in San Diego from 1988 to 2000 and in San Francisco from 2010 to present. Interspersed with one year in Australia, seven years in New Zealand and 3 years in Switzerland. It has become truly international, but the strong national ties proscribed at WP:ENGVAR seem to clearly point to using American English here. Thoughts? Mojoworker (talk) 14:37, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

America's Cup flags / ensigns
This following text is copied from my talk page to this article talk page so that others might voice an opinion (I fixed the link to Galatea; all else unchanged).

"I noticed you changed the Irish flag icon templates on the America's Cup article. I agree they were previously incorrect, but using the flag of Ireland for Ulster (Northern Ireland) is a contentious issue. Since 1801, the UK has used the Union Jack as its national flag&mdash;see Flag of the United Kingdom. It would also probably make sense to use the Union Jack in place of the Scotland and England flags as well.  On the individual Yacht pages, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom might be more appropriate.  See the File:Deck of the cutter Galatea-1.jpg&mdash;it appears that Galatea is flying that ensign. Thoughts? Mojoworker (talk) 07:51, 23 April 2012 (UTC)"

I confess that the troubles of Ireland completely flummox me. I suspect it's in large part because here in the great wasted deserts of North America, Ireland wasn't much mentioned in school—in fact, I recall first learning of the Troubles only in my twenties when I was on a submarine advanced-based in the Holy Loch, Scotland. To this day I cannot noodle out which side is Catholic, which side is Nationalist, which side is Protestant, which side is Unionist in the same way that I can noodle out which side is Confederate and which side Union for the American conflict.

The Irish flags in the Challengers and defenders table are all associated with Sir Thomas Lipton who was a Scotsman. Apparently he was liked by King Edward VII and King George V but that wasn't enough for him to gain admittance into the Royal Yacht Squadron until shortly before his death. Perhaps his Ulster-Scots heritage is why he chose to pursue the America's Cup from Royal Ulster Yacht Club in Ireland. It would seem that he could have just as easily pursued the Cup from the either the Royal Northern or Royal Clyde Yacht Clubs in Scotland as Henn (Galatea) and Bell (Thistle) had done before him.

In the, this: "This Cup is donated upon the condition that it shall be preserved as a perpetual challenge Cup for friendly competition between foreign countries." And in the next paragraph after the bit about challenging countries having access to the sea, this: "...a yacht or vessel propelled by sails only and constructed in the country to which the challenging Club belongs, against any one yacht or vessel constructed in the country of the Club holding the Cup." From these and other statements in the Deed and amendments and resolutions, and interpretations, one gets the notion that the concept of nationality is important to the America's Cup. So, that argues for retention of the national flag icons in the Challengers and defenders table leaving only the question of which flag.

Does the flag represent the country of the sponsoring club? But then, what about that bit in the deed that talks about construction? In the case of Lipton's Shamrock, designer Fife was a Scotsman with his principle business at Fairlie in Scotland. She was built either at Chiswick or Millwall in England—her article seems to say both. She was sponsored by RUYC in Ireland. All that is missing is a connection to Wales. Presumably, Shamrock met all of the conditions specified by the Deed of Gift which would indicate that the United Kingdom is the nation for which she raced in the 1899 America's Cup.

The sea-going version of the Union Flag for the Merchant Navy and private boats is the Red Ensign and has been, in various forms, since 1674. Presumably the current (since 1801) variant of the Red Ensign is the flag that all of the yachts representing the United Kingdom in the America's Cup have worn.

So then, at the end of this long ramble, I conclude that you are correct: the proper flag icon template to be used in the Challengers and defenders table for yachts representing the United Kingdom is 🇬🇧 United Kingdom. For the individual articles, I likewise agree that the appropriate flag template is. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

But, conflicting with this is the template. There, under Other information, is this: "This template is intended to be used for sport-related instances, where the United Kingdom is often known as Great Britain. Please use Template:Country data United Kingdom for non-sport references." So, where is the priority? Because the America's Cup is all about sailing and because sailing is a sport, should the appropriate flag be the Union Flag (because sailing is a sport) or the Red Ensign (because America's cup is sailing)? It would seem that this issue only applies to the Challengers and defenders table because the yachts are still yachts whether or not they race.

--Trappist the monk (talk) 18:10, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The table currently uses national flags not maritime ensigns, and I would keep this distinction. I would also rule out using the Irish flag as Ulster has never been part of the Republic of Ireland. In a way of a solution I would either a) use the Union Jack and also change all English, Scottish etc challenges (In 2003 there was a team called GBR Challenge for which the UK flag would be best anyway). or b) Use a Northern Ireland flag (probably Flag of Northern Ireland.svg or maybe St Patrick's saltire.svg) Other alternatives are on the Northern Ireland flags issue page. Mattlore (talk) 20:56, 23 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Trappist, thanks for the thorough analysis and for fixing my wikilink&mdash;I didn't realize I'd linked to the disambiguation page. That's what I get for working at that time of night. I too know little of the Troubles, but I've seen heated arguments about them here on Wikipedia... I agree with what you've said, and as to your final question, Mattlore's option a) was what I had been envisioning. I think that in the results table, the national flag&mdash;in this case the Union Jack&mdash;would be most familiar to most readers&mdash;especially since it's a bare icon followed by the name of the yacht club.  It would also more closely represent the actual nature of the competition between the nations than option b) would. Thanks. Mojoworker (talk) 22:27, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I think the way it was before was perfect. This matter had already been talked over with paulh back in 2010. We used the Saltire for the first Lipton challenge, and for reading ease down the table, kept it until 1930, even if technically it should have been replaced after 1916 or so. Please note that we were using countries, and not the Kingdom to distinguish England from Canada for the 1876 challenge (a very appropriate contemporaray flag is used in this context). That is why we carried on using countries for Scotland and Ireland, the latter being the troublesome issue. Using the 1783 Saltire for the Royal Ulster Yacht CLub is at least appropriate for 1899, 1901 and 1903. The flagicons currently used have erroneous parameters so it defaults to the Irish flag, which we all agree is wrong. I was bold and changed it back, but I doubt using Northern Ireland in this contexxt is of any use either, as it just simply wasn't referred to as such until the very last challenge in 1930.
 * On another matter, I had organized the title index using rating rules, and now the whole thing includes "1983 a new era" which may be somewhat accurate, runs out of line from the rest. It certainly does not add to the article and is not in encyclopaedic styling. I motion strongly against it, and I have used subtitles in the meantime.
 * Thanks for contributing the Won template, it is a great addition. signed:Nuttyrave (talk) 23:03, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Before this discussion I would have agreed with you Nuttyrave. However with Shamrock being built in England and sailed by a Scotsman representing an Irish club I think it becomes clear that it is actually a UK challenge under the deed of gift. Therefore I am now of the opinion that they should all be represented by the Union Jack. This would also have the benefit of being consistent with the modern GBR Challenge and Team Origin. Mattlore (talk) 02:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)


 * @Nuttyrave: May I presume that this is the Paul discussion to which you refer? If so, I don't think that there is anything there that specifically addresses the "countries" issue.  Agreed, item 3 says: "The nationality should be associated with the Yacht Clubs (as under the Deed they are the ones challenging and defending)."  The preponderance of that discussion is about burgees and table format and other minutia but there was no discussion of national flags that I can see.  What am I missing?


 * Not sure I understand what you meant by this: "Please note that we were using countries, and not the Kingdom to distinguish England from Canada for the 1876 challenge..." By 1876, Canada was a country in its own right, was it not?  I agree with you that the 1868 Canadian flag is the correct flag for the Challengers and defenders table.


 * For Bell's Thistle, the Saint Andrew's Cross would appear to be the most correct choice. For Henn's Galatea, I'm not so certain—not enough information in WP on him or his yacht.  Because of reasons I've already enumerated, Lipton's challenges should all be flagged with the Union Flag—I lean toward the Red Ensign because the America's Cup is all about sailing and, as Mojoworker pointed out in the message that started all of this, the Red Ensign is the flag that Galatea is wearing.  And in response to Mattlore's comment that "The table currently uses national flags not maritime ensigns...", I will point out that the Red Ensign is the National Flag of the United Kingdom at sea.  The United Kingdom, unlike the United States, has at least three national flags.


 * --Trappist the monk (talk) 03:34, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * If we use the Red Ensign for the UK then wouldn't we also need to change other nations, for example use the red Civil Ensign of New Zealand for TNZ? I assume Australia, Canada etc also have there own version of the Red Ensign as well. Mattlore (talk) 05:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I've added one level of indent to the above post.


 * For Canada, when a new Canadian challenger arises, the Maple Leaf will be the correct flag—for the 1876 America's Cup, the 1868 flag is the correct flag. I had not considered using New Zealand and Australian Red Ensigns.


 * A WikiProject Ships page has a collection of tables that identify civil ensigns. From one of those tables I learned that Switzerland has a civil ensign.  Earlier, Mattlore noted that the "table currently uses national flags not maritime ensigns".  A closer inspection of the table shows that the Swiss civil ensign is used for Alinghi.  Someone at some time clearly made the decision to make those flags civil.


 * Here is a table of all of the nations in the Challengers and defenders table that have separate national and civil ensigns:


 * {| class="wikitable"

!Country !Flag !Ensign
 * Australia
 * 🇦🇺 Australia
 * 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Italy
 * 🇮🇹 Italy
 * 🇮🇹 Italy
 * New Zealand
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * Switzerland
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland
 * United Kingdom
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * }
 * United Kingdom
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * }
 * }
 * }


 * --Trappist the monk (talk) 14:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Trappist, yes, I noticed the Swiss ensign last week and edited the Alinghi 5 article to match, but you changed it back . I think that ensigns would be technically more correct, however for the table, the thing I worry about is that there's just a bare icon without the nation's name. Would the use of ensigns confuse the casual reader? Mojoworker (talk) 17:20, 25 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Oops, so you did. My thing is consistency.  When I got to Alinghi 5 I changed the flag template to  consistent with all of the other America's Cup yacht articles I've touched.  I didn't notice the difference in proportions; all I noticed was that  wasn't  .  I'm inclined to leave it as it lies for now until a decision is taken on how we should proceed.


 * Confuse the causal reader? Not sure how a casual reader would be confused by ensigns.  The ensigns may be unfamiliar but the unfamiliar doesn't necessarily cause confusion.  Confusion comes about because something inexplicable appears on the page:


 * 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Coca-Cola logo.svg 🇳🇿 🇳🇿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🇬🇧


 * In a previous post I wrote that someone thought about the Swiss civil ensign in the Challengers and defenders table. Twas our friend Nuttyrave. No one seems to have noticed until Mojoworker. 2009-05-30 to 2012-04-19: 2 years, 11 months, 20 days.


 * --Trappist the monk (talk) 22:47, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

So to summarise, so far I think we've reached a consensus to replace the SCO, ENG etc flags with the UK flag - we are now divided over whether to keep the national flags or change them to maritime ensigns. Correct? Mattlore (talk) 23:57, 26 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, ... no, not really. If I had my way, for challengers and defenders with firm connections to England, Ireland, and Scotland:


 * 1851 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The race was in English waters against members of an English yacht club
 * 1870 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Lloyd Ashbury was English; Cambria was built at Cowes
 * 1871 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Lloyd Ashbury was English; Livonia was built at Cowes
 * 1885  Sir Richard Sutton was English (?); Designer John Beavor-Webb was Irish;  Genesta was built in Scotland
 * 1886  Henn's nationality unknown; Designer John Beavor-Webb was Irish;  Galatea construction location unknown
 * 1887  James Bell nationality unknown; Designer George Lennox Watson was a Scot;  Thistle built in Scotland; Skipper John Barr was a Scot;
 * 1893   Lord Dunraven was Irish; Designer George Lennox Watson was a Scot;  Valkyrie II built in Scotland; Royal Yacht Squadron is English
 * 1895  Lord Dunraven was Irish; Designer George Lennox Watson was a Scot;  Valkyrie III built in Scotland; Royal Yacht Squadron is English
 * 1899  Sir Thomas Lipton was Irish; Designer William Fife was a Scot;  Shamrock was built in England;
 * 1901  scottish designer, scottish builder,
 * 1903  Insufficient information
 * 1920  Insufficient information
 * 1930  Sir Thomas Lipton was Irish; Designer Charles Ernest Nicholson was English; Shamrock V was built in England; Royal Ulster Yacht Club
 * 1934 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Owner Sir Thomas Sopwith, designer Charles Ernest Nicholson, builder Camper and Nicholsons, all English;
 * 1937 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Owner Sir Thomas Sopwith, designer Charles Ernest Nicholson, builder Camper and Nicholsons (?), all English;
 * 1958  Royal Yacht Squadron;  Sceptre built in Scotland;
 * 1964  Insufficient information


 * What I notice when looking at this assemblage of flag icons is that is is difficult to distinguish the difference between the civil Australia, civil New Zealand, and civil United Kingdom icons.
 * 🇦🇺🇳🇿 Compare the national flag icons:
 * 🇦🇺🇳🇿 The difference between Australia and New Zealand isn't much.


 * It doesn't help that the flag icons aren't of uniform size—some with and some without collars in their images (that's work for someone else).


 * So, here is my vote: While I prefer the concept of civil ensigns, the Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom ensigns are just too difficult to distinguish without looking closely. Therefore, I think the rule should be: Use national flags, and for the United Kingdom, use the individual country's national flag when the challenger's or defender's country of origin can be determined.


 * Discuss.


 * --Trappist the monk (talk) 17:18, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * If this flag is located in the club's cell, it should not pertain to the owner's nationality, the skipper's nationality, the shipwright's nationality or the modeler/designer's nationality. It should pertain to the club and should represent the club's location at the time of the challenge. If you use an ensign, it should pertain to the yacht and be displayed in the yacht cell. Alternating between the Union Jack and country flags within the UK is a confusing idea. Since this is an encyclopedia, the change should be normalized and formal, otherwise this situation will inevitably be rediscussed (again). As it stands currently, countries of the UK were used because it was deemed useful to represent Canada for the 1876-1881 challenges, whereas Canada was only independent after 1931. The way it is now does not lack logic, it is actually very precise, except for the 1920-1930 RUYC challenges when it was suggested that the continuity of Lipton's challenges through the RUYC meant using the same flag, for an easier read. signed:Nuttyrave (talk) 18:33, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Henn was born in Dublin and Lipton was born in Scotland, Genesta was built at David & William Henderson's and Galatea was built at John Read's & Son, both Glaswegian yards. Not sure if any of this info helps determine the flag to be used really. signed:Nuttyrave (talk) 19:34, 27 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Actually, the Canadian Confederation was formed in 1867 as the Dominion of Canada and note it's listed under List of sovereign states in 1876. And from the Canada article: "Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the legal name for the new country"... I understand the arguments, but I tend to agree with Mattlore. I think it hinges on the meaning of "country". Note that "country" is a somewhat nebulous term and Country says 'The term "country" is commonly used to refer to sovereign states'. That section also has a link to Lists of countries and territories with a large assortment of Lists of Countries by different criteria. There it has this definition from the Oxford English Dictionary: "A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of nation (a cultural entity) and/or state (a political entity)". In checking several of the lists there, I could only find the UK on them and not Scotland, or England. Constituent country states (reformatted to better fit here):


 * There are some wikilinked items there and there is more detail at Countries of the United Kingdom. Note at List of sovereign states by date of formation there is only United Kingdom, formed 1707-05-01 from the union of Kingdom of Scotland with the Kingdom of England (which already had incorporated the Principality of Wales in 1542), with the Kingdom of Ireland joining the union in 1800 which agrees with the above. So to conclude, the constituent countries of the UK are countries in the "cultural entity" definition, but not sovereign states. Therefore I would vote to use the  for all the UK challenges and the civil ensigns on the individual yacht pages where the icons are larger. Mojoworker (talk) 20:04, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I think using UK and the home countries flags is confusing and we should pick either style and stick to it. Based on the argument above for Shamrock and the modern challenges I have been convinced during this argument that the UK flag is the appropriate one. Canada was always a dominion (within these years) and can always be represented by its own flag. Mattlore (talk) 21:14, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Irish, Scottish and English clubs all represented under the Union flag is the simplest way forward. signed:Nuttyrave (talk) 21:41, 27 April 2012 (UTC)


 * So, a handful of days have passed. Here is the vote as I understand it:


 * Mattlore: "the UK flag is the appropriate one"
 * Nuttyrave: "Irish, Scottish and English clubs all represented under the Union flag"
 * Mojoworker: "use the for all the UK challenges"


 * Therefore, I shall make it so.


 * --Trappist the monk (talk) 14:52, 30 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks Trappist and to all who participated. It's refreshing to have a content discussion come to a consensus without any nastiness. Too bad that's not always the case here at Wikipedia.  Mojoworker (talk) 16:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * it isn't over yet! I have a complaint, regarding the display. The images above the table are all fixed to 300px, making them far taller, and forcing the table from using the fullpage width. I am using a fairly standard 1366x768 display, and I am quite certain the smartphone readers will like to set their own thumbnail sizes in the preferences rather than use a fix width: Trappist you can always use and hit save if 300px is what you want. Currently for me, the pictures have almost all dropped down a section out of context. Your thoughts? Thanks for contributing. signed:Nuttyrave (talk) 22:00, 30 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Restored.


 * --Trappist the monk (talk) 00:24, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Posts from 209.237.234.133 for San Francisco 2012
Just a note that 209.237.234.133 is the Media WiFi IP address onsite at the San Francisco 2012 event going on right now. (I was not the previous poster, but noticed a talk to the anon login) (Yosofun (talk) 01:40, 24 August 2012 (UTC))

Redlinks and §Challengers and defenders
Recently editor Jmg38 made two tweaks to the table in §Challengers and defenders. I reverted one of them as meaningless. Editor Jmg38 has since reverted my reversion with this comment:

"Article had wikilnk to NZL-60, which does not exist. Edit inserts direct jump to NZL-60 section of Team New Zealand wiki, providing direct info on NZL-60."

Editor Jmg38 is correct that NZL-60 links to a nonexistent page. Further, Jmg38 is correct that his new edit links into the Team New Zealand page where NZL-60 is mentioned. However, Jmg38 is incorrect in the assertion that this link provides "direct info on NZL-60" (italics mine—because boat names ...).

In the table, the Challenger and Defender columns list the contending yacht's owner (syndicate, team, etc) and the name of the contending yacht. In many cases the yacht's owner is linked to a page about that owner. Similarly, the contending yacht's name is linked to an article about the yacht. Where there is not article about the owner, the consensus appears to be: render the owner name in plain-text (Anthony Boyden, the 1964 Challenger, is was the single exception which I will fix have fixed). For the yacht name, the consensus is the opposite: render the contending yacht name as a link without regard to an extant article.

Editor Jmg38's link into the Team New Zealand article from NZL-60s name doesn't go to an article about the yacht'. NZL-60 is mentioned as the winner five nil over Luna Rossa in the first sentence of that two-sentence section of the Team New Zealand article. This hardly qualifies "direct info on NZL-60".

For these reasons, I have reverted Jmg38's edit.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:45, 2 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Trappist the monk - you're right to make the change. Details are too sparse regarding NZL-60 to justify using that 'secondary' wikilink as a link for NZL-60.  I've gone back and removed the redlink - simple answer is to show the name of the boat in plain text, until such time as someone decides to create a page for the boat.  Thanks for the feedback. Jmg38 (talk) 00:07, 3 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Except that what you've done is counter to what appears to be the general consensus I referred to in my initial post: render the contending yacht name as a link without regard to an extant article. Until a different consensus arises it would seem that we should leave NZL-60 name as a red link.  I have made it so.


 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:14, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Nationality Requirements
An editor added the following shown in square brackets: "During the Twelve-Metre era, the New York Yacht Club, citing of the Deed language that the Cup should be "perpetually a Challenge Cup for friendly competition between foreign countries", had adopted several interpretive resolutions intended to strengthen nationality requirements [that had existed, but were not uniformly enforced, since the earliest Cup defenses]". This implies that there were design and crew nationality requirements written down somewhere from the earliest Cup matches. I am not aware that this was the case prior to the NYYC 12 metre era. If the editor has a source for the bracketed statement, please post it here. --Paul (talk) 14:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The resolutions would likely be NYYC resolutions, and unless challenged in some way may not be printed in a public forum. It seems you would need to get sourcing from the NYYC.  It would be interesting to see that, and it would be interesting to see the exceptions.  Gunbirddriver (talk) 21:44, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Apocryphal
I don't understand what this long winded sentence is supposed to achieve. The earliest source that I have found is at least |30 years antedated and the use of the word apocryphal clearly sets out the fact that it is unfounded. I would strike world wars in the first place. . signed:Donan Raven (talk) 18:38, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Damage to Cup
"In March 1997, a person entered the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's clubroom and damaged the America's Cup with a sledgehammer." How about the truth, that the "person" was a Maori activist? Pictures of the damaged cup are available - one here would highlight how severe the damage done was. 203.9.151.254 (talk) 02:48, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Race Schedule
How often is the race held? I searched the article and couldn't find it. Is it just random?Robinrobin (talk) 00:42, 27 September 2013 (UTC)


 * It is variable, but not random because it depends on an agreement between the defender and the challenger,--Gautier lebon (talk) 06:58, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Race numbers
The 2013 is called the 34th America's Cup, but it is the 35th entry in this article's list of races. That discrepancy needs to be explained. Also, I propose adding a column to the table, two digits wide, under the heading #, with each entry being the number of the race and a link to the Wikipedia article about that race, if there is one. As it is, there is unnecessary difficulty in jumping back and forth between the articles about various races. The space for this column could be taken from the Venue (1 space) and Defending Club (3 spaces) columns. HowardMorland (talk) 20:10, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * That's because, as explained in the lead, the trophy was only named "America's Cup", and put up for challenge, after the original victory by the yacht America. So the first "America's Cup" race was the first race after the original victory.  There have been 34 of those to date.  Also, as noted elsewhere, in Wikipedia we are naming the events by year, not by number, so we should not add numbers to the table.  And I'm not sure when the organizers started using numbers, I seem to recall that in earlier decades numbers were not used (but I may be wrong on that).--Gautier lebon (talk) 07:23, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Also the table already contains links to the articles, in the year column. Mattlore (talk) 09:24, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * So I guess including the original Isle of Wight race in the "Challengers and defenders" section is a bit of a misnomer since there was no defender – or maybe we could take the view the were all challengers in that race. But I think the first race does belong in the table. Perhaps renaming the section "Original race, challengers and defenders" and/or an explanatory note on the first table entry stating it was not part of the "America's Cup" series would make sense. Mojoworker (talk) 20:26, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * You could start an uproar by saying that it was the Zeroth race, I suppose, and putting "0's" in the appropriate places. Please don't. htom (talk) 21:30, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

35th America's Cup
I have added a redirect page for now for the 35th America's Cup. It redirects to the main AC Cup page. The press releases provide enough foundation to start to article but I thought we might wait for a release from the challenger before going forward.WPPilot 17:33, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Here it is the press release from the challenger: [] I am going to start the 35th cup page perhaps today or tomorrow.WPPilot 18:16, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Bond characterization
Dishonest? Was Bond's dishonesty related to the Cup racing - no, hence I don't think it is relavant here. It would be like adding the adjective "Libertine" in front of Bill Clinton's name in an article about his administration's foreign policy. The place to mention Bond's dishonesty would be an article on Bond.


 * Yes, it was related. America's Cup racing has been described as "standing in a cold shower tearing up $100 notes". Bond spent a substantial amount - many million - to win the cup, and the money was dishonestly aquired. Not opinion: he wound up in jail for several years, and would still be there had his lawyers not got him out on a technicality. See Tannin 22:11 17 February 2003 (UTC)


 * The use of the word "dishonestly in preceding comment appears prima facie defamatoryStrawbridge2017 (talk) 12:28, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

- In the modern day spirit of the cup, i dont think it matters where the money came from. Late 80s / early 90s challenger Michael Fay made his fortune ripping off the New Zealand taxpayer by buying state assets for a pittance and asset-stripping them. Equally immoral in my opinion. The business activities of many challengers and defenders which are legal in one nation could be construd as illegal in another.

How dishonest / immoral the source of the money to fund challengers is decided by the nations from which they come. Since there is no internationally recognised quorum of what is and isnt legal, i believe the source of funding is irrelevant.

I will leave it up to you to decide.

Aerodrome (talk)

Constructive criticism should be tolerated
This is a controversial event which many see as having been taken over by big money and lawyers (I think this is inevitable given the amount of money at stake). It rouses strong passions in New Zealand and elsewhere. It would be appreciated if the Talk page in particular allowed a Wikipedia consensus to appear. So please - not do delete well-meaning attempts to have a constructive discussion.Strawbridge2017 (talk) 12:38, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Contested deletion Category talk:Yachting races
You should know about this and comment. One of our editors has systematically depopulated it, and thinks that is a good reason to delete it. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:11, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I have added a short comment contesting deletion.79.23.0.163 (talk) 01:37, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Challengers table
Of course, "1851 Isle of Wight United Kingdom Royal Yacht Squadron 8 cutters and 7 schooners, runner-up Aurora United States New York Yacht Club John Cox Stevens syndicate, America 0–1" should not be in this list. The America's Cup didn't exist at that time, the fact that the cup that became the Ould Mug was sailed for not withstanding. Mysha (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 11:51, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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Queen's Cup
I've just been reading this book, see here: "The Royal Yacht Squadron; memorials of its members, with an enquiry into the history of yachting and its development in the Solent; and a complete list of members with their yachts from the foundation of the club to the present time from the official records. By Montague Guest and William B. Boulton"

On page 222 it says "It was in this race, sailed on the 23rd August, 1851, that the America established her prodigious reputation, and the cup which she bore away as the result of her victory is the famous trophy known in England as the America Cup, in America, for some strange reason, as the Queen's Cup, which has been the exciting cause of so many famous matches in later times in America."

Then on page 226 there is a statement that cup's actual name is the Royal Squadron Cup.

This book also goes on about all the Queen's Cup races held annually from 1838 (the first), and every year to 1862, in 1863 it was withdrawn due to the death of Albert, and then it resumed the following year and so on... to at least 1900. Think this means a re-write required here? Broichmore (talk) 12:09, 27 April 2018 (UTC)


 * In the 19th century, the trophy was kept by the winners. So the event "Queen's Cup" / "Royal Squadron Cup" had many trophies. The particular trophy of 1851 is a 100-sovereign silver ewar, that was won by America. That 1851 cup is called the 100 Guinea(/Sovereign/Pound) Cup, RYS Cup, Auld Mug, and America's Cup. The 1863 cup is a different one, since the Americans kept the 1851 Cup in New York City. And the 1851 cup was sculpted in 1848, so cannot be the trophy from 1838. You should write an article on the Queen's Cup / Royal Squadron Cup, where it can mention the 1853 trophy becoming the America's Cup. If you can find information on the other trophies that would be good for that article. Mention in this article that the particular trophy given in 1851 was part of a series of trophies for that Royal Squadron Cup could be done. Though bear in mind that there were other races at the 1851 regatta. There is likely a different 1851 Queen's Cup at that regatta that was won on a different day in a different race. -- 70.51.203.56 (talk) 04:38, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Typically a patron donated one trophy for one race per year. the August 22nd Trophy was one of three identical trophies donated to the RYS by First Marquess of Anglesey, one of the patrons of the RYS. The same trophy was offered by the NYYC in 1870 for the New York Harbour regatta was incidentally described by media as the Queen's Cup, so you will face significant disambiguation in the header of this article anyhow. I may title the new article "The King's Cup" because they were significant events donated by King George V for the Big Class renewal of the 1920s. signed:Donan Raven (talk, contribs) 12:35, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Separate trophy article?
As we have a Super Bowl article and a separate Vince Lombardi Trophy article, I think we should have a separate article for the Auld Mug, from the competition for it. Several other sports series have such separation, and the history of the trophy would be better served separated as a subarticle, just as each regatta is supposed to have a subarticle. We can examine the life of the trophy, where it has been housed, the treatment of the trophy, damage, restorations, duplications. -- 65.94.42.219 (talk) 04:14, 12 May 2018 (UTC)