Its been a while since the America's Cup has been in the US. Our connection to the Cup is through Olin Stephens whose firm, Sparkman & Stephens, not only designed the Dolphin but many America's Cup defenders. Olin also teamed up with Starling Burgess to design Ranger in 1937 - the last of the famous J Boats.

Your webmaster was recently in Geneva, Switzerland and had the opportunity to check out the present resting place of the Cup - the Societe Nautique de Geneve - and took the following pictures.

The Cup is located in the entry hallway of the Club Nautique de Geneve. This is a modest club on the southwest shore of Lake Leman just outside Geneva.

The last time I saw the Cup she it was on the pedestal in the main entry hall at the New York Yacht Club.

A large scale model of Alinghi was on the roof of the club annex. This site is a working site - just out of view to the left was a 49'er Olympic hopeful working on his boat.

Geneva's famous Jet Eau