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The First America's Cup & Why it Matters - The story of the America's Cup - Part 2
Do you know when the first America's Cup race really took place and why what happened more than 150 years ago has such a bearing on the sport today? PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan visits two of the most prestigious yacht clubs in the world on either side of the Atlantic to find out. And while his visit to the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes and the New York Yacht Club delivered several familiar tales, there were plenty more that he wasn't expecting, along with discovering that extreme yacht racing was even bigger back then than it is now.
