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GRANDEST REGATTA EVER – Jack Griffin With no America’s Cup World Series racing until December and the stress of the pandemic, let’s reflect on happier times. The grandest regatta ever, the 2001 America’s Cup Jubilee


celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Royal Yacht Squadron’s race around the Isle of Wight. The most incredible collection of sailing craft ever gathered in one place put on a truly unforgettable week-long show. Thousands of spectators ashore and thousands more afloat were treated to the spectacle of over 200 large yachts racing in the Solent and around the Isle of Wight to mark the anniver- sary that started everything in 1851. The Jubilee attracted yachts from all over the world and many sailors including America’s Cup legends such as Olin Stephens, Dennis Conner, John Bertrand, Russell Coutts, Ted Hood, Bill Koch and Bruno Troublé. It was a dazzling week. Yachting writer David Glenn concluded, ‘Nothing like this has been seen before and it will never be seen again.’ It didn’t happen by accident. In 1993 the photographer Keith Beken asked Maldwin


Drummond, then Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, what the Squadron would do to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first race for the America’s Cup. Drummond immediately embraced the idea of marking the occasion and he dared to have the vision of a grand regatta. His reach and genius for inclusivity, combined with his infectious enthusiasm, soon brought the Squadron, local authorities and national sailing associations in behind the idea. In 1995 the 2001 America’s Cup Jubilee was announced and


Drummond was appointed the Chairman of 2001 Limited, the company created to manage the financial aspects of the event. Antony Matusch, then the Squadron’s Rear-Commodore Yachting, was selected as Chairman of the Regatta Committee. Matusch, who worked tirelessly on the details of the event, earned


praise from Peter Nicholson, the Squadron’s Commodore during the Jubilee: ‘The 2001 regatta, which was such a phenomenal success, would probably not have happened at all had it not been


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for Antony Matusch. He travelled the world, at his own expense, to persuade clubs, commodores and owners to come to Cowes. He was the main mover in getting some wonderful sponsorship; he planned pretty well everything and worked day and night for at least two years to get the show on the road.’ Three dozen 12 Metre yachts raced in three divisions. Three


J Class yachts, Shamrock V, Endeavour and Velsheda, were joined by former 23 Metre class Cambria, and sparked the renaissance of the J Class. Nine IACC yachts raced, with 1995 Cup winner NZL-32 acquitting herself proudly against newer yachts. The final day of the jubilee, 26 August, marked the final race for


Australia II. The 1983 winner of the 25th America’s Cup match had come out of retirement in a museum to race in the Jubilee. After that final race she was returned to Fremantle and her permanent home on display in the Western Australian Maritime Museum. For their monumental work organising the Jubilee, Malcolm


Drummond and Antony Matusch have been selected by the Herreshoff Marine Museum/America’s Cup Hall of Fame to receive the Sir Richard Francis Sutton Medal. Instituted by the America’s Cup Hall of Fame in 2018, the Sutton medal recognises the spirit of the America’s Cup, ‘to promote friendly competition between foreign countries’. The medal is awarded, from time to time, to persons or entities that have exemplified that spirit in the course of their association with the America’s Cup. We will almost certainly never have another regatta as grand as


the 2001 America’s Cup Jubilee. But we will have more great America’s Cup racing. Let’s look forward to that. In the meantime, stay safe! CupExperience.com


PIVOTAL TIMES – Terry Hutchinson Quarantine, not exactly what we had in the planning – nor did any of the other teams for that matter! At this writing I am in Pensacola as the team is packing up Defiant, tent, containers and our lives for the trek south. A bit sad really as


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