America’s Cup
From Staff and Wire Reports
The 10 America’s Cup challengers will start their trials--officially, the Louis Vuitton Cup--at San Diego next Jan. 25, they decided in a meeting at St. Tropez, France.
Round-robin series of match races were scheduled Jan. 25-Feb. 5, Feb. 13-25 and March 8-19, followed by semifinals March 29-April 9 and a best-of-seven finals April 20-29.
It was announced earlier that the defense trials matching Team Dennis Conner against two boats from Bill Koch’s America-3 syndicate will run Jan. 14-26, Feb. 8-18, March 3-17 and March 28-April 12, followed by finals starting April 17 and continuing until one boat wins seven races.
The challenge and defense survivors will meet in the best-of-seven Cup match starting May 9.