Built ultra light, using carbon fiber construction and on-the-edge engineering; these racing machines require expert handling.  We have moved and continue to move the best of the best.

The 'One Hundred Sovereign Cup' was commissioned by England's Queen Victoria in 1848 for a yacht race "open to all nations".  In 1851 one U.S. schooner, 'AMERICA', representing the New York Yacht Club, challenged 15 English yachts, and won the race around the Isle of Wight by 20 minutes.  The renamed 'AMERICA'S CUP' moved to the New York Yacht Club, where it survived 24 challenges over the next 132 years.  It is the oldest trophy in international sport, and is considered the Holy Grail of yacht racing.

In 1983 'LIBERTY' lost the America's Cup to the innovative 'wing-keeled' 'AUSTRALIA II', ending a 132 year U.S. winning streak. The cup moved to the Royal Perth Yacht Club in Australia.

12 meter class, wing-keeled, 'STARS & STRIPES' 1987 is shown here being put on display at the Hotel Del Coronado in 1988. Note the rectangular patches of peeling material on the hull bottom. These clear adhesive stick-ons, which feel like shark skin, were developed by 3-M to make a hull slide through the water faster.

In the 1987 A/C  challenge in Australia, Dennis Conner's 'STARS & STRIPES' defeated Australian defender 'KOOKABURRA'  in four straight wins, bringing the cup home to the San Diego Yacht Club. There were 13 challengers, 6 from the U.S.

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In 1988, a New Zealand syndicate challenged the San Diego Yacht Club to an A/C race using 'KZ1', a huge, fast, unothodox,132' boat with a 40 man crew. Surprised, and not having time to design or build such a boat, Conner answered the challenge by building a cutting edge catamaran with a wing sail. The high-tech sail is pictured here, on our trailer, at the Rutan Scaled Composites factory in Mojave, CA.

The 'STARS & STRIPES' cat went on to win the farcical race by a big margin, and also prevailed in the final of three associated law suits.

1992 saw the first use of the newly introduced International America's Cup Class (IACC) of boats, replacing the12 meter class which had been used since 1958.

In the 1992 finals, the Italian challenger 'IL MORO' (pictured) was defeated by 'AMERICA³', allowing the cup to remain in San Diego.

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The 1992 race in San Diego attracted many U.S. and international challengers. Inside this giant Antonov cargo plane at Lindburgh Field, San Diego, are a French and an Italian boat, along with their masts, keels, and other equipment..

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Stars & Stripes crew in action

In the 1995 race in San Diego, New Zealand's 'NZL 32', nick-named 'BLACK MAGIC', defeated the STARS & STRIPES  team who defended the Cup using a fast boat borrowed from the YOUNG AMERICA  team.  The America's Cup moved to a new home in New Zealand.

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Pictured at the Port of Oakland CA, this ORACLE BMW 2003 challenger is ready to be shipped to Auckland, NZ.

Once again, all U.S. entries were eliminated in the Louis Vuitton challenger series.  Vuitton Cup winner 'ALINGHI'  then defeated TEAM NEW ZEALAND, claiming the America's Cup for Switzerland.

Later, in Fall of 2003, 'ALINGHI' and 'ORACLE BMW' held a match race in San Francisco Bay. Following the race, we transported the entire ALINGHI compound (boat, masts, chase boats and equipment; 10 truckloads) from Oakland, California to Newport, Rhode Island. Swiss Team ALINGHI, from a land-locked country, announced they will defend the America's Cup in Valencia, Spain, in 2007.

While the America's Cup is the most glamorous race, there is a lot of other racing and even non-racing activity going on. Whenever expensive racing equipment needs to be moved we are experienced and available.

We transported this retired 12 meter A/C boat to Wendover, NV to be used in the movie, ' Wind,' about a fictional 'under-dog' America's Cup challenge team. The boat was painted in an airplane hangar in Wendover and was re-named Geronimo.

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'AGE OF RUSSIA', a Russian syndicate entry for the 1992 America's Cup challenge,  was flown in to San Diego in December of 1991, the same month the Soviet Union was dissolved.  Unfinished, under funded, and mired in internal disputes and legal issues, this boat was soon abandoned at a San Diego boatyard.  After years of moving from one local yard to another, including several years at our storage facility, the boat was sold to a Canadian group and moved to Canada.