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Australia was knocked out in series 3 . A new, very powerful keel now made Steak'n Kidney a very fast and she began winning races. The extra power was overloading existing rigging and sails, races were lost due to breakdowns, not speed. Needed points to qualify as defender were also lost. Her last Defender series race, against the eventual Defender Kookaburra III, she won by 1 minute 36 seconds. She went onto the 12 meter world championships in Sardina, Italy, later that year and won a head to head match race against Dennis Connor with Stars and Stripes, the winner of the 1987 Americas Cup.
332:. The afterguard of the Kookaburra boats were combined for the Cup finals, with Gilmour acting as skipper in the pre-race through the start, while Murray would take the helm for the race itself. Gilmour would then move over to mainsheet trimmer. The Kookaburra boats were designed by John Swarbrick and Iain Murray.
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was the initial skipper, Fred Neil took over as skipper in the early rounds of the eliminations. Following the elimination of South
Australia, after series B, Philip Thompson was appointed the new skipper. Steven Kemp was the tactician and Robin Doussen the navigator, Joe English was later recruited
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America's Cup course with the top four boats of Series A, B and C going to the Series D semi-finals. The top two boats entered the finals and the winner entered the America's Cup series as the defender. The buoy is a permanent navigation marker used for
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group which had won the 1983 Cup and which had a wealth of experience, having been to
Newport as challengers in 1974, 1977, 1980 and 1983. The team won the 1986 World 12-metre championships in convincing style with Australia III. Close Bond associate Warren Jones was the syndicate director and
198:. This cannot be the case as his book clearly states Bertrand's decision to transition from sailing to a business career in the book obviously before it was published. Bertrand was a media commentator for Alan Bond's network during the televised races.
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Australian government provided a $ 1M subsidy to a syndicate of businessmen led by Adelaide advertising executive Roger Lloyd who contracted Lexcen to design a boat called
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Thompson was appointed helmsman and, following poor early showings, became the replacement skipper with John Savage in the afterguard. Irish offshore yachtsman
249:(KA-8). The group included support from 150 companies. For $ 600,000 the group received a new boat which was also built at Ward's boatyard with a similar design to
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257:team to provide basic crew training. As soon as
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790:"The Australian Defender Selection Series 1987"
666:. Lester-Townsend Publishing Pty Ltd, Sydney.
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896:"Kookaburra III – KA 15"
807:. Pierson. p. 174.
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97:-31.952500; 115.6467000
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687:Rayer, Ranulf (1986).
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127:Royal Perth Yacht Club
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196:Born to Win
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95: /
80:31°57′9.0″S
70:Coordinates
1511:Categories
1433:Challenger
926:"Yachting"
718:"Yachting"
638:References
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396:The Series
352:purchased
311:Kookaburra
231:Swan River
223:Ben Lexcen
1224:Prada Cup
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547:Points
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389:Solings
1497:(book)
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1226:(2021)
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538:Races
370:Sydney
109:Winner
1470:Media
1403:AC45F
1344:Class
544:Loss
1478:Wind
1415:AC40
1410:AC75
1398:AC50
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1386:AC72
1369:IACC
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1324:1987
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1172:2003
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1142:1983
1137:1980
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846:ISBN
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