Britain will not be bringing the America's Cup home this year but they narrowly beat New Zealand to clinch the Red Bull Youth America's Cup in Bermuda. Emirates Team New Zealand lead the first-to-seven America's Cup Match 3-0, showing greater speed and manoeuvrability in their foiling 50-foot (15 metre) catamaran than their US opponents. The New Zealand challenger for the 35th America's Cup is helmed by 26-year-old Peter Burling, who won the inaugural youth cup in San Francisco in 2013, along with crew mates Blair Tuke, Andy Maloney and Guy Endean. NZL Sailing Team skipper Logan Dunning Beck said all they could do was cross their fingers and hope the British team failed to cut through the other boats. The 40-year-old has made it his mission to bring the "Auld Mug", as the America's Cup is known, back to Britain, where it was first claimed by the schooner 'America' in 1851.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 22, 2017 01:41 UTC