Polo Shirt, America3 America's Cup Yacht Racing Team, 1995
Polo Shirt, America3 America's Cup Yacht Racing Team, 1995
- Description
- In 1992, American businessman Bill Koch funded the yacht America3 that beat the Italian challenger to win the America's Cup yacht race. In 1995, he put together an all-female America's Cup racing team aboard a new purpose-built yacht named Mighty Mary. They beat Dennis Connor in the first Defender race but lost the series final with a male captain. Dennis Connor went on to lose the 1995 America's Cup to New Zealand in five straight losses.
- This polo shirt with the team logo was donated to the Smithsonian by a member of the foredeck crew for the Mighty Mary campaign.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Measurements
- overall: 77 cm x 101 cm; 30 5/16 in x 39 3/4 in
- ID Number
- 1995.0208.02
- catalog number
- 1995.0208.02
- accession number
- 1995.0208
- Credit Line
- Gift of Merritt T. Carey, Tennants Harbor, Maine
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- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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