Lionheart Wins Worlds
by Adam Cort
Oct 10, 2017
2 minutes
The fleet blasts off the line midway through the regatta
Eighty years aft er cleaned up 4-0 in the 1937 America’s Cup off Newport, Rhode Island, the last time ever that the mighty J Class raced for the “Auld Mug,” the Dutch-flagged , which is based on lines similar, made some history of its own by winning the class’s first-ever world championship.
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