Wednesday, October 20, 1999

Associated Press
Hawaii's Abracadabra 2000 and Spain's Spanish
Challenge 2000 cross during their match in the sixth
race of the first round robin in the Louis Vuitton
Cup off Auckland, New Zealand. Spanish
Challenge won the match by 43 seconds.

Abracadabra drops two

Associated Press

AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- San Francisco's America True was able to squeak past Hawaii's Abracadabra 2000 on the third day of the America's Cup challenger series yesterday.

America True and Abracadabra 2000 tacked more than 60 times on the second windward leg before the San Franciscans scraped over the line for their second victory of the series by 26 seconds.

The Spanish challenger then defeated Abracadabra by 43 seconds in the afternoon.

Stars and Stripes finished the day with 3 points, tying Abracadabra behind Prada, AmericaOne and Young America.