16.04.2012
Dan Dickison
Media Manager
Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week
The America's Cup Comes to Charleston
Links:
1. http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8ed53033938649d67491665c9&id=ca416892d8&e=832977c897
WHAT: The America’s Cup, the oldest trophy in international sport.
WHERE: Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week village at the Charleston
Harbor
Resort & Marina in Mt. Pleasant, SC
WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 2012 (Cup viewing from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.,
“Cupdate presentation” by Tom Ehman, Vice Commodore of the Golden Gate
Yacht Club, at 1:00 p.m., free and open to the public.)
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (April 16, 2012)—The oldest trophy in
international sport will be on public display during Sperry Top-Sider
Charleston Race Week on Saturday, April 21. First raced for in 1851,
the America’s Cup, which represents supremacy in sailboat racing, is
now 161 years old this year. It is currently held by the Golden Gate
Yacht Club in San Francisco, California after its team, ORACLE Team
USA, won the Cup in February 2010. The GGYC and ORACLE Team USA are
preparing to defend the Cup when the 34th America’s Cup regatta takes
place in San Francisco next year.
The America’s Cup is making its first ever visit to Charleston by
special arrangement between the organizers of Sperry Top-Sider
Charleston Race Week and the Golden Gate Yacht Club. GGYC Vice
Commodore Tom Ehman – a 32-year America’s Cup veteran – will be on hand
at the Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina in Mt. Pleasant (the
headquarters of Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week) to offer a
multi-media presentation about the Cup and the excitement of the events
leading up to that regatta, in September 2013.
Viewing of the America’s Cup is free and open to the public, as is Mr.
Ehman’s presentation, which will take place at 1:00 p.m. for
approximately an hour. Families with children are especially encouraged
to attend.
For additional information about the America’s Cup at Sperry Top-Sider
Charleston Race Week, go to www.charlestonraceweek.com. For more
information on the America’s Cup, go to www.americascup.com.
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