Cup Conundrums

The history of the America's Cup is littered with assumptions and falsehoods...

The endless fascination, or as Bob Fisher put it 'the ‘absorbing interest,’ of the America’s Cup is an itch that once bitten, you just can’t stop from scratching. Almost daily I converse with super-bright and highly engaged historians from all over the world that are beavering away on niche Cup stories, facts or storylines and it’s like a collective of generational sleuths all eager to get the story right. The most contentious stories are those from the first race and the subsequent first four challenges where the axiom that “a lie gets half way around the world before the truth has got its pants on” is never more apt.