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Re: Cunninghams

To: Jim Hayes <hayes@highway1.com>
Subject: Re: Cunninghams
From: Mark Donaldson <markhd@voyager.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:54:13 -0700
Jim Hayes wrote:
> 
> Lime Rock's Fall Vintage Festival featured Cunningham a few years ago.
> ABout 5 or 6 cars showed up incl. "Le Monstre". At the Saturday night
> dinner, ny sons and I sat with Briggs Jr and spent most of the evening
> talking about America's Cup racing, another of Briggs Sr.'s passions. I
> may still ahve the program if the original poster is interested in
> seeing it.
> --
> Jim Hayes  Winchester, MA, USA
> hayes@highway1.com         http://www.fotec.com/jim.htm
> jeh@fotec.com              http://www.fotec.com/
> All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false!



Jim,
Just as an "aside" ....
I believe that the Cunningham Eye on sails is an invention
of Briggs Cunningham, many decades ago.

Mark Donaldson
Auckland   N.Z.
The Home of the (slightly dented) America's Cup.



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