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Spithill ready for heavyweight sailing showdown vs Ainslie
By BERNIE WILSONFebruary 10, 2021 GMT
More than two decades after a lowkey start to his America’s Cup career, two-time champion Jimmy Spithill is back in Auckland, New Zealand, hoping to help steer Italy to its first victory in the 170-year-old competition.
Spithill has come a long way since the 1999-2000 regatta, when he was the 19-year-old skipper of Young Australia. The syndicate was so underfunded it sailed an old boat, housed its sailors at a hostel and used a 164-foot crane barge as its base.
“It could do everything. It was called the Hikinui,” Spithill recalled. “Have no idea where it is, but it had a crane on it, had a container, a little bit of a workshop on there. We used to joke it was our hospitality lounge as well, which basically consisted of a couple of those plastic chairs and a cooler and I think some old umbrella someone found. It was quite the base.”