Black Magic, a 12-metre-class yacht from New Zealand,
won the America's Cup 5-0 from Stars & Stripes USA
in 1995, sailing in the blue-gray waters of San Diego Bay.
Russell Coutts and his crew were first to bring the Cup
to the City of Sails, whose wide-open deep-water harbour
is ideal for yachting regattas all summer long.
Black Magic was an elegant titanium carbon-fibre monohull.
The America's Cup had long been in Europe then San Francisco
when Team New Zealand launched a challenge again this year,
flying Emirates in the light-blue waters of the Great Sound,
Bermuda, to defeat Oracle Team USA 7-1 all the way, sailing
the duel in a fifty-foot wingsail foiling catamaran.
Peter Burling foiledJimmy Spithill's manoeuvres start to finish.
Team NZ's multihull was faster, if less elegant, than Black Magic.
-29 June- Ist. July,2017.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
It is a best historical poem on sport having nice depiction. The glorious days of New Zealand has been presented touchingly without jingoism. Many thanks for sharing this.