Engineering:Freedom (yacht)

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Freedom
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1980 America's Cup winner Freedom
Nation United States
Class12-metre
Sail noUS–30
Designer(s)Olin Stephens and Bill Langan
BuilderMinneford Yacht Yard
Racing career
SkippersDennis Conner
Notable victories1980 America's Cup
America's Cup1980

Freedom (12 meter US-30) is a 12-metre class racing yacht and winner of the 1980 America's Cup, defeating the challenging yacht Australia under skipper Dennis Conner. Freedom was designed with an alloy rather than a wood hull by Olin Stephens and Bill Langan, and constructed at Minneford Yacht Yard. She was skippered in the Cup by Dennis Conner.

Today Freedom is available for charter out of Newport, Rhode Island from America's Cup Charters, along with fellow America's Cup winners Intrepid and Weatherly.

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