What is the most famous trophy in the sport of yacht racing?
The Billionaire and the Mechanic 2003, 2007 and 2010 Cups. And at the 2013 Cup in the second edition. The book opens with Ellison's experiences at the catastrophic 1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race, where a freak storm with hurricane force winds sunk several yachts, killing several sailors. Ellison vowed to transition from open water racing to inshore racing, and in that, go after the oldest trophy in international sport, the America's Cup. Basing out of San Francisco, it covers his troubles with the high brow St. Francis Yacht Club, leading to a search for an alternate sponsoring squadron. In conjunction with this search, the
Yacht racing Yacht racing Yacht racing is a form of sport involving sailing yachts and larger sailboats, as distinguished from dinghy racing. It is composed of multiple yachts, in direct competition, racing around a course marked by buoys or other fixed navigational devices or racing longer distances across open water from point-to-point. It can involve a series of races when buoy racing or multiple legs when point-to-point racing. Yachting, that is, recreational boating, is very old, as exemplified in the ancient poem Catullus 4: <poem> The yacht you see there, friends, says that she's been The fastest piece of timber ever seen;