Twenty-five years ago, Dennis Conner’s comeback win at the America’s Cup in Australia inspired a Japanese movie producer to make a feature film about sailboat racing – WIND. Quite a few of the usual suspects of the sailing scene got involved, and I was one of them. Amid the fustigation, stress and associated smoke approaching America’s Cup 32 in Valencia, Spain, 2007, Craig Leweck of Sailing Scuttlebutt rang my chimes for a look-back. What follows is a five-year update of that writing.

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