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Alinghi has sold its wonderboat of the 2005 Louis Vuitton Act Series, SUI 75, to the new British challenge for the next America’s Cup, Team Origin. Although SUI 75 was originally thought to be a bit of a dog in Auckland (with Russell Coutts’s team opting to sail the tried and tested SUI 64 to win the 2003 Cup), in its revamped Version 5 mode SUI 75 was a pure thoroughbred.

Alinghi dominated the match racing and fleet racing in 2005 with this boat, and SUI 75 was still a very potent weapon against the challengers’ 2006-generation boats such as USA 98 and ITA 86. Only the Kiwis’ NZL 84 could possibly claim to be faster.

So Sir Keith Mills’s new team has made a very smart purchase. Ian Walker, tactician of +39 Challenge, says that one of the great… Read the rest