Challenge 2000: The Race to Win the America's Cup

Rating:
Summary: Missed the overlap by a few feet
Review: A wonderfully written and presented book with all the glorious photos one would expect from a book describing the Cup. The history, while put forth in a concise and informative manner, comes to dominate the book. The book ends with a quick sketch of the chalangers and then abruptly ends. It fails to cover either the Louis Vinton or Americas Cup. Why a book on the challangers that doesnt document the challenge?

Rating:
Summary: A little bit restrained but a good book.
Review: Russell Coutts is New Zealand's greatest living yatchsman however not a great author but he really does try to bring out his passion for his love of match racing.

As with his demenor in life, he is a little too humble in his writings but using the America's Cup history he and fellow author, Paul Larsen manage to produce a good coffee table book that is easy to read and leads you right up to the beginning of Challengers series that was a much better spectical than the next event three years later.

All the participants are mentioned and technical talk and actions well explained.

I felt that this book should have been released after the Americas Cup 2000 proper so the end results could have been added. Team New Zealand's only successful defence would have rounded out this book nicely. Of course Russell Coutts was at the healm of Black Magic at the time and we now know what happened three years later.