Well, I noticed that Jimmy Spithill (The helmsman aboard the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli (Coached by Frenchman Philippe Presti who acts as Spithill's coach) boat along with Francesco Bruni) is the godfather of the modern America's Cup (And he sparred with former rugby league player & boxer Monty Betham (And Spithill was like that he had a brief bromance with him) as part of his training method but before Spithill arrived on the America's Cup scene, it was Dennis Conner (Team New Zealand's opposing skipper back in the day) who dominated the America's Cup scene until the 1990's when Russell Coutts took over until he left Team New Zealand in 2000 along with Brad Butterworth to join Alinghi (Coutts left in 2004 when Butterworth took charge as skipper (American Ed Baird (Who was the Team New Zealand coach in 1995 before he joined Young America for the 1999/2000 Louis Vuitton Cup) was at the helm in 2007) before Spithill was the new face of the America's Cup when Oracle won in 2010 & therefore became the godfather of the America's Cup during the modern era or should I say during modern times when Oracle retained the Auld Mug in a miraculous comeback in 2013 against Dean Barker (Who was the backup helmsman & understudy to Russell Coutts aboard the Team New Zealand yacht when they triumphed in 2000 to retain the America's Cup & was replaced by 'Pistol Pete' Burling at the helm while 'Lenny' Ashby was the skipper after the events of 2013) & Emirates Team New Zealand before being upstaged by the same opponent in 2017 (It was the Ashby & Burling show in Bermuda in which they went on to win) & rejoined Luna Rossa for the 2021 Prada Cup & is on a verge of winning the challenger selection series against INEOS Team UK (Who went from bad in the America's Cup World Series 2 months ago to so good in the round robins to bad again just like in the ACWS because they are now in a downward spiral in which they are now strugglers) for the right to be Emirates Team New Zealand's opponent in the 36th America's Cup match).
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