While We Wait for the Cup Matches…
While the two billionaire protagonists await a ruling from the New York Supreme Court on a date for the battle, PPL has launched a unique on-line image archive of Cup pictures that go back to the first race for the America’s Cup back in 1851.
The 1,500 strong picture archive is part of PPL’s wider Watersports and Sub Aqua on-line library, that allows users to search, and browse screen res images. Once you register, users can then download high res. files at any time.
Most pertinent perhaps are the pictures from the last Court ordered Cup match between Michael Fay’s 130ft monolithic monohull New Zealand and Dennis Conner’s 60ft catamaran Stars & Stripes back in 1988 - the last time the Supreme Court ruled on a one-on-one match.
PPL’s America’s Cup archive traces the entire 157-year history of the Cup.
The story of the America’s Cup is peppered with personalities. We have them all on-line from the millionaire owners and syndicate heads to skippers, crewmembers, and designers. Click Here to view a lightbox of selected images fromthe first challengers like James Lloyd Ashbury and Lord Dunraven to Alan Bond, Dennis Conner and Peter Blake, as well as the latest protagonists, Larry Ellision and Ernesto Bertarelli.
View the pictures: www.covari.com/PPL/lightbox.lasso?-Token.Lightbox=12647945
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