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Your history lesson is great. It doesn’t have a whole lot to do with what the cup has become in the modern era though. Look harder...

I think your major mistake here is to assume that the Americas cup's reason to exist has anything at all to do with promoting the sport...

https://www.yachtworld.co.uk/yacht/2000-j-boats-j-105-9503965/ But what I'd actually buy with that budget would be this. No wheel...

The foils and arms weigh about a tonne each. To be clear, the foils are not OD, they are designed by each team, and vary quite a bit...

That has no more bearing than a "gentleman's agreement". Nothing that the teams sign is legally enforceable with respect to the next...

I don't think it's possible to put the foiling genie back in the bottle now. Nor is it especially desirable that we do. There clearly...

There's lots of feasible small foiling sailing boats already - do you mean small foiling yachts? The Quant 23s in Europe are similar...

The America's Cup boats of earlier eras were very close to, and often a normal example of, the boats that the average big-boat sailor...

Having spent a (long) lifetime around boats, I suspect the reason that few women contribute to this forum is the "laddish" behaviour...

I think that's a given to be honest. Where the Js, and even the 12s, have enjoyed a long retirement as (very) rich persons plaything...

Maybe if you want to comment about the habits of today an incident from before I was even born is not the best to use as an example.

A pedant writes... They actually swapped out at 4-1, and continued to lose races, but just without the bizare tactical calls...

I wouldn't bother with any surgery until after you've flown it. Especially as it's not all that wide. Suspect it'll go downwind...

My wife no. Whilst she's an extremely capable member of the race crew, she didn't sail before we met and hasn't done very much cruising...

I don't think this forum is representitive. We have very few women participating here for this very reason.