America II US 42 was selected by Hollywood Producer Francis Ford Coppola to star in the 1992 TriStar movie Wind. The movie recounts how the USA and [Ciff Robertson] playing Helmsman Dennis Connor as defender in the 1983 America’s Cup which lost to the Australians –ending the longest continuous win streak in sports [1851] – and the USA’s subsequent challenge four years later to win back the “1987 America’s Cup” in Perth Australia, with a Hollywood style finish!
