Boat Details

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America's Cup Class Boat Record
Sail Number	14
Owner	Sail Queenstown
Country Currently on Sail	NZL
Lying	Lake Wakatipu
Status	Tourist / Corporate
Current Activity
Notes (add any information relevant to this boat - press the Update button to record your changes. We will update the database fields with your additions & corrections)	New Zealand Challenge (NZL-14) Built in 1991 for Michael Fays New Zealand Challenge, NZL 14 or 3A as she was called was the third of four yachts built for the 1992 Cup. She was designed by Bruce Farr and shared the tandem keel concept with her sisterNZL 20. She was built atCooksons Boat works and was voted by theteam asthe fastest of the four yachts. She ultimately was not chosen for the Louis Vuitton Cup, but did serve as a trial horse. Her skipper was Russell Coutts.NZL 14 sailed in the 1991 IACC Worlds finishing second. She then became the trial horse for Team New Zealand in 1995 back in Auckland. In 1998 she was purchased by the Hong Kong Challenge and commissioned in New Zealand as a training yacht. She was later repossessed by Michael Fay and sat in a trucking yard with NZL 20 for the next three years until John Sweeney and Tina Kleinjan found them. John and Tina bought both of them and NZL14 was assembled and sailed during the 2000 America’s Cup. She was then sent back to San Francisco and was the first IACC yacht in the San Francisco Fleet. She had a new paint job and a new engine installed. Her tandem, keel was removed and her L shape keel installed for more reliability. She is offered for sale at $250,000 USD to the right owner (edit in...... she enjoys life in San Francisco as a Sailing Billboard. She still sports her original red paint job and now has a new 125 hp Yanmar Turbo Diesel to propel her around the Bay) Sold April 2005 to a group in Auckland Now working as a toursit attratction in Queenstown, NZ. You can pay to go sailing onher in Lake Wakatipu. http://sailqueenstown.co.nz/
Web Links ( these are not yet live links - this is just a space for collecting links - they will be live later)	http://www.sailingbillboards.com/bios/new14.html http://sailqueenstown.co.nz/ http://archive.odt.co.nz/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=ODTA&BaseHref=ODT/2005/12/09&EntityId=Ar02500&ViewMode=HTML
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This page will be developed to include a full ownership history, racing history and photo gallery for each boat. This will be kept up to date as news arrives. For now we are catching up on any current information. If you know where this boat is, her condition, owner, current activity etc please add to the Notes section above (with your screen name), we'll update the database. The data that is on this page is a mixture of information form other websites (thanks Bill Hughen & Erwan Le Ravallec), recent news, personal knowledge and guesswork. Any help would be much appreciated.