Little America's Cup gallery - 1

Top French photographer Christian Fevrier gives us his insight on the high performance C-class

1991. McCrae beach.
Inside the Australian campaign's container, which the wingmast just fits into, you can see how a C-Class wingmast can camber. The Australian teams have never been rich and Lindsay has often been obliged to build his wing with pieces of plywood instead of carbon.



These are Lindsay Cunningham's special 'flappinos' on The Edge III. These increase or reduce the width of the slots with the camber of the three elements effectively acting as the rig's carburetor. While these were quite crude in the 1980s generation rigs, the mechanism is much more streamlined here.



Tony Love, seen here with The Edge III designed the hulls of all Lindsay Cunningham's C-Class cats including the hulls of Victoria 150 in 1984..



The zenith of the ten year long Australian domination of the Little America's Cup - the two The Edge catamarans test sail against one another along the MacCrae beach in the Melbourne Bay.