The 61-year-old Melges, a seasoned match racer and cup veteran, played the game to the hilt.

Pacé is also an experienced match racer on the world circuit.

The windward gate less often used due to the difficulties in managing right-of-way around the right gate whose subtlies are understood mostly by match racers.

What everyone else wanted to see was how gold medal standard stacked up against professional match racers.

The team this year will be skippered by William Tiller, an experienced match racer from New Zealand.

America's Cup Veterans The skippers are among the world's best match racers.

Grey Badger II was a noted match racer during the 1940s.

Joe Reed later turned into a decent match racer himself, although all of his racing took place before the organization of the AQHA.

Pacé, an experienced match racer known as the Little General, is expected to bring aggressiveness to an afterguard that has not won a start so far.

Barker's skill as a match racer rapidly developed and he became skipper of the "B Boat" in these races.