RW>  > Not sure of the reasoning behind it, other than it would be
RW>  > inconvenient for foreign contingencies to get there in the
RW>  > earlier years of the Cup races.  As the Cup races had always been
RW>  > held in Newport, you'd have thought that that would have been the
RW>  > venue.
RW> I believe it was always held in Newport because the Americans never lost
RW> at one point in time... and the winners were always from that area....
RW> but I really don't know that much history about it....
DD> Whom ever has the Cup sets the terms of the challenge. 12 Meter boats
DD> were a tradition... as were the J boats which preceded. The original
DD> yacht America which first won the cup was a schooner. BTW - it's called
DD> the America's Cup because of the name of the original winning boat...
DD> not because it was an American yacht that won.
DD> Anyway, the races were held at Newport for so long because the YC there
DD> was the home club of the defenders - who set the rules. After the
DD> unthinkable happened and someone other than an American won the
DD> silverware the Newport stranglehold on America's Cup was broken.
DD> ...MS-DOS = the corner church; Amiga = pagan sex magick under a full moon
Welp, I really screwed the pooch on that one. I know that the NY Yacht Club
"owned" the cup until the upstart Ozzies grabbed it away and took it down
under. I suppose I'll have to plead creeping senility or something as the
reason I didn't state that in the original post.   
 
ENJOY!!!
Something's Cooking in Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
... MS-DOS = suit & tie; Macintosh = cool shades; Amiga = high heels & 
ather
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