There’s no need to be a sailor to grasp the attrition going on as 12 Metre crews fight it out on Gage Roads in 1987. Australia IV is seen crossing Kookaburra III in a defence final that will only diminish Australia’s chances of keeping the Cup. Match racing massively loaded up high-pointing 27-ton monsters in sinking conditions. Watch and weep, kids, the grown-ups then went on to louse it all up again