Endeavour — the boat’s name is befitting of its journey twice to the brink of destruction and the tireless work that went in to restoring the 1934 vessel to its former glory.
It was “an absolute Armageddon battle start to finish to get the boat done,” Elizabeth Meyer tells CNN’s Mainsail show.
The American’s painstaking restoration job, which began 30 years ago, is credited with a resurgence in the interest in the gargantuan J-Class boats that used to battle it out for America’s Cup supremacy, a far cry from the space-age designs of the competition’s current multihulls. Read More
