Alnghi 30"

Item  #  AC23

Alnghi 30"
 
  • Overall dimensions 30" High x 4" Wide x 17" Long.  2 Lbs.
  • This is a pre assembled model. Models are shipped with the sails unassembled. All rigging, lines and stays have brass hooks attached, which easily hook into eyelets on mast, boom, sprit or deck. Assembly takes less than 5 minutes.
  • Detailed instructions including pictures for assembly included.
  • This Alinghi yacht has a wooden hull and wooden masts.
  • This Louis Vuitton Cup model sailboat yacht is hand painted the actual colors of the Alinghi yacht.
  • Alinghi America's Cup Racer has fabric sails with detailed stitching and logos like the ones on the actual yacht.
  • To build this model ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual yacht.

 
 
Alinghi is a coined name of the syndicate set up by Ernesto Bertarelli to challenge for the America's Cup. Bertarelli had raced several smaller yachts named Alinghi previously, but 2003 was his first attempt at the America's Cup. Alinghi successfully challenged for and won the 2003 America's Cup in Auckland New Zealand and successfully defended at the 2007 America's Cup in Valencia, Spain.

For the 2003 event Team New Zealand as the holder of the America's Cup, in consultation with Prada the Challenger of Record, removed the nationality rule which stipulated that all the crew members must be nationals of the challenging syndicate.

Alinghi took full advantage of this rule change and hired many of the world's top America's Cup sailors particularly from New Zealand. New Zealanders saw the defection of key members of Team New Zealand to Alinghi as an act of disloyalty to their home country which was understandable against a background of strong nationwide public support for Team New Zealand which they saw as representing their country rather than just representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.
     
     
 Alnghi 30" $99.95
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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