Today the ACM website leads with a very nice story on our sailing team manager, Olympic medalist and two-time Cup winner Craig "Monkey" Monk (NZL).

The last two paragraphs were particularly good quotes (we should use them on the USA Yacht Club tour which begins tonight at NYYC -- we will be blogging the tour):

While Monk has being doing this job for a long time, he is far from getting tired or bored of the life of an America’s Cup grinder. “Every Cup I seem to enjoy it more and more. The event’s changing, getting bigger, and I enjoy these regattas. I’ve done it the other way where we sailed from 1995 through to 2000 and we just did five years of testing, for five races in the Cup. Those were hard yards.”

After the years of secrecy and two-boat testing, Monk welcomes the Louis Vuitton Acts as a breath of fresh air. “These are definitely high quality regattas. There’s a lot of planning, a lot of shore work, a lot of logistics involved, we’ve got to bring 25 sailors to these events. It’s a two-week package, and you’ve got to put everything together. Training can’t simulate that in-house. It tests everyone right across the board, the shore crew management, sail makers, sailors, boatbuilders – the whole lot. You’ve got to be on top of your game, it lifts the team to a new level.”

Nice ink for Craig, our team and, indeed, the Cup.

Multi-talented Monkey: not only does Craig sail, he is sailing
team manager, serves on the team Executive Committee, and
even helps out with the Morning Show on days he is not racing.