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...most dominating performances in the history of the America's Cup regatta, Team New Zealand's Black Magic I won the fifth straight of five races off the shores of San Diego and took home the world's premier sailing trophy. --By Melissa August, Christine Gorman, Belinda Luscombe, Michael Quinn, Alain Sanders and Sidney Urquhart
Dennis Conner, the consummate yachtsman if not the consummate gentleman, is even more of a celebrity in New Zealand than in the U.S. Way Down Under, where sailing is a serious sport, the San Diego skipper is known not only as Mr. America's Cup, though, but also as Dirty Dennis. The moniker stems from his having publicly accused the Kiwis of cheating in 1987, when they were on the verge of winning the Cup's Challenger series. The charge was officially discounted, but the flustered New Zealanders, despite a 37-1 record in the trials, came unglued. Conner went...
...years later, the little island country-with a population smaller than that of Los Angeles-has mounted an almost $20 million challenge, complete with the requisite space-age, computer-loaded sloop, to wrest the 144-year-old silver ewer from its U.S. berth. The grudge match between Team New Zealand and Team Dennis Conner began last Saturday in the first race of a best-of-nine series, with a resounding victory by the Kiwis aboard Black Magic I. With a possible two more weeks of sailing in the famously fickle breezes off San Diego, the final outcome is still...
...sudden switch prompted outrage in New Zealand, of course. "Dennis is doing what he's always doing," Prime Minister Jim Bolger told reporters. "He's bending the rules a little. I mean, it wouldn't be a final race if he didn't do that." Trenkle shrugged off the complaints and said, "With all the bad things written about Dennis over the years, this just rolls off his back...
...prevent a recurrence of his worst nightmare: losing the Cup to Australia in 1983, which was the first time the Auld Mug had ever passed out of American hands. Should that happen this time, few doubt that Dirty Dennis will be sailing-and roiling-the waters off Auckland, New Zealand...