Le Défi was a French America's Cup team that competed in the 1992 , 1995 , 2000 and 2003 Louis Vuitton Cups and in the first few Acts of the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup . After 2005 Le Défi supported China Team .
17-491: Le Défi BTT competed in the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup , sailing FRA-46. The team finished sixth after the round robins, making the elimination stage. However they could not make the finals of the Cup. As Le Defi Areva they entered the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup , finishing eighth with FRA-69. They were then eliminated by Victory Challenge in the first knock-out stage. In the first three Louis Vuitton Acts in 2004 Le Defi finished fifth of
34-589: Is an American former competitive sailor and Olympic silver medalist. Bertrand sailed with John Kolius on board Courageous in the 1983 America's Cup defender's trials. At the 1984 Summer Olympics , Bertrand finished in second place in the Finn class. He was then involved in the New York Yacht Club 's challenge for the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup , first as tactician and then replacing Kolius as skipper. He again raced alongside Kolius on Abracadabra 2000 during
51-514: The 29th America's Cup , Team New Zealand immediately accepted the challenge from the New York Yacht Club and announced that the next Cup would be in 2000, with the Louis Vuitton Cup being in late 1999. This delay was to avoid conflicting with the 1997/98 Whitbread Round the World Race and give Auckland the time to build the necessary infrastructure to host the cup. The New York Yacht Club
68-988: The America syndicate before building ITA 45 and ITA 48. Umberto Panerai was a trainer. Skippered by Paul Cayard , AmericaOne was one of two syndicates from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000. AmericaOne purchased OneAustralia as a training boat before developing USA-49 and USA-61. The team included tactician John Kostecki , navigator Terry Hutchinson , Lexi Gahagan, Billy Bates, Curtis Blewett , Josh Belsky , Gavin Brady , Sean Clarkson , Justin Clougher, Kevin Hall , Mike Howard, Pieter van Nieuwenhuyzen , Morgan Larson , David McClintock, Jim Nicholas, Carter Perrin, Greg Prussia, Russ Silvestri , Ralf Steitz, Phil Trinter , Morgan Trubovich, Matt Welling and Ray Davies . Robert Billingham
85-1009: The Cup. The crew included Chris Larson, Cameron Dunn, Brian MacInnes, Marco Constant, and John Bertrand . America True was one of two syndicates from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000. The team was led by CEO Dawn Riley and John Cutler served as helmsman. The team was funded largely with private funding provided by G. Christopher Coffin , which allowed them to purchase Tag Heuer before developing USA-51. The design team, led by Phil Kaiko, also benefited from America 's design information. The crew included Buddy Melges , Kelvin Harrap , David Armitage, Carl Barkow, Liz Baylis , Ben Beer, Jamie Boeckel, Greg Burrell, Merritt Carey, Lisa Charles , Tom Faire, Daniel Fong , Scott Gregory, Stephen Gruver, Peter Heck, Al Palewicz, Katie Pettibone, Hal Sears, John Spence, Latimer Spinney, John Sweeney, Tucker Thompson, Brad Webb , Jon Ziskind, Jeff Madrigali , David Stevenson and Leslie Egnot . David Barnes skippered
102-572: The FAST 2000 team was the countries first America's Cup challenge. SUI 59 was an unknown quantity when it arrived in Auckland but the syndicate ended up with a disappointing 2 wins over the course of the Cup. Other crew members included Enrico Chieffi , Pierre Fehlmann, Yves Detrey, and Hans Bernard. Le Defi Bouygues Telecom Transiciel was a one boat challenge from France led by Syndicate head Luc Gelluseau and operations manager Pierre Mas . The team
119-470: The New York Yacht Club, the challenger of record, Young America built on John Marshall 's PACT '95 syndicate. The team's yacht's USA 53 and USA 58 were designed by Bruce Farr and built on the 1995 Cup defender Young America . The Helmsman was Ed Baird and the crew included tactician Jim Brady , navigator Ed Adams , Ross Halcrow , Tom Burnham, Dean Brenner, and Jamie Gale . Young Australia
136-499: The campaign were experienced sailors and America's Cup campaigners Sir James Hardy and Iain Murray . Three round robin series (RR1-RR3) were held. During RR1 a team scored 1 point per win. During RR2 a team scored 4 points per win. During RR3 a team scored 9 points per win. John Bertrand (American sailor) John Joseph Bertrand (born March 25, 1956, in San Mateo, California )
153-546: The eight teams, sailing with FRA-69. After this the team began supporting China Team and FRA-69 became CHN-69. The team finished last in the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup . 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup The 5th Louis Vuitton Cup was held in Auckland , New Zealand, in 2000. The winner, Prada Challenge , went on to challenge for the 2000 America's Cup . It was the first time in the competition's history that there would not be an American challenger or defender. After winning
170-586: The familiar name of Stars & Stripes , common to all of Conner's boats since 1986. The team was representing the Cortez Racing Association and included Peter Isler and Ken Read in the afterguard. Peter Holmberg also joined the team as a tactician, merging the US Virgin Islands Challenge into the team after the syndicate ran out of funds. Other personnel included Bill Trenkle , Tom Whidden and Erle Williams . Representing
187-426: The team was formed in 1997 and became an early favourite in Auckland. The team used designer Germán Frers who worked for Il Moro di Venezia in 1992. Francesco de Angelis was the skipper with Rod Davis acting as the sailing coach. The crew included Matteo Plazzi , Alan Smith , Giuseppe Brizzi, Pietro D'Alì , Simone de Mari , mid-bowman Max Sirena and Torben Grael . Prada originally acquired two boats from
SECTION 10
#1733093652296204-536: The testing boat. Skippered by Pedro Campos , as in 1992 and 1995, the team added Olympic medal winning sailor Luis Doreste to the crew in 2000. Backed by the government, royal family and major sponsor Telefonica . The team built ESP 47 and ESP 56. Before the regatta a crew member, Martin Wizner, died almost instantly when he was hit in the head by a broken piece of equipment. Led by experienced French campaigner Marc Pajot and with German Jochen Schümann as helmsman,
221-435: Was Syd Fischer 's final America's Cup challenge and currently was the most recent America's Cup entry from Australia. The young crew was led by James Spithill , then just 19, and included Wade Morgan, Joey Newton , and Andy Fethers. The syndicate sailed with two old boats, Sydney '95 (AUS-29) and oneAustralia (AUS-31) which were not competitive against some of the newer designs sailed by competitive syndicates. Involved in
238-474: Was led by Australian Peter Gilmour. The team was hit early on by the loss of former syndicate head Makoto Namba, who was lost at sea, and the Asian financial crisis , which severely limited the team's budget. The team launched JPN 44 and JPN 52 for the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup. Team Dennis Conner was Dennis Conner 's eighth America's Cup challenge or defence. The team was sponsored by Citizen Watches and USA-55 adopted
255-507: Was skippered by Bertrand Pacé , who replaced Marc Pajot from the 1995 challenge, and Thierry Peponnet was the teams tactician. Thierry Fouchier was also on the crew. Two other French syndicates attempted to form challenges and almost competed as Le Defi Sud, but in the end lacked the money required to charter a boat to compete. The third challenge from the Japanese syndicate funded by S&B foods chairman Tatsumitsu Yamasaki . The team
272-448: Was the challenger of record. By 31 January 1998 16 teams from 10 nations had made the $ US 250,000 deposit to officially challenge for the America's Cup. In the end only 11 challenges from seven nations competed for the Louis Vuitton Cup. Hong Kong, British and Russian challenges withdrew while an American team and a French team merged into existing challenges. A strong two boat challenge led by Patrizio Bertelli and sponsored by Prada ,
289-452: Was the chief operations officer. Funded by Dr Jim Andrews , Aloha Racing built on their ocean racing history to launch an America's Cup challenge from Hawaii. Skippered by veteran John Kolius , the team secured sponsorship from HealthSouth to ensure their participation. The team built USA-50 and USA-54, both called Abracadabra 2000 , and opted to train in Hawaii, rather than Auckland, before
#295704