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Burnham\u2019s addition to the 溏心vlog免费B站 team didn\u2019t hurt either. In his four years at 溏心vlog免费B站, the sailing team won several national championships and reached the World Collegiate Keelboat Championships \u2013 also called the Student Yachting World Cup \u2013 all four years. In 1990, the Rams became the only U.S. team to win the World Cup. It\u2019s a distinction they still hold 34 years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Led by All-American Lars Guck, the eight-person team beat Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, France, and Australia in a field of nine other boats to take the championship, winning the last three races. Burnham remembers the great team atmosphere among 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s eight sailors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI look back on that team and think of how we had some tough times during the event,\u201d says Burnham, the bowman during the regatta, handling the sails in windy conditions. \u201cIt was a pretty long event. There were a lot of challenging conditions and some tough sailing. We worked really hard together and gelled as a team without a whole lot of practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To celebrate, the team drove overnight to Paris after the winning race and ended up at the Hotel de Ville, the city hall of Paris, where the mayor awarded them a trophy. When they flew into T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, then-溏心vlog免费B站 President Edward Eddy and others were there to greet them. The team members still stay in touch, Burnham says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFunny enough, I got a message just two days ago from one of the women on the team, Tara Walcott, with a photo of us from that trip, just out of the blue,\u201d says Burnham, who lives in Newport. \u201cLars, the skipper, his son is now a sailor at 溏心vlog免费B站. And my son, who is going to be a senior in high school, wants to apply to 溏心vlog免费B站 and be on the sailing team. [We\u2019re] trying to keep the tradition going.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burnham, a team captain for two or three seasons at 溏心vlog免费B站, describes himself as a team player, a role player, a team leader \u2013 and less of a standout performer. But he has put together a career on the water that would make many envious \u2013 while being among the lucky several hundred sailors who make a living at it as a professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no question that my time at 溏心vlog免费B站 and my time as part of the sailing team really made a huge impact on my life,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His career started by being in the right place at the right time. In 1997, he was living in Newport, doing some coaching and taking care of people\u2019s boats, when he got an invitation to go out for a day with America\u2019s Cup challenger Young America, which was training in nearby Quonset Point. That turned into a job that started a 10-year run of competing in the America\u2019s Cup, including two campaigns with the Italian team, Luna Rossa. In 2017, he returned to the America\u2019s Cup as head coach of Sweden\u2019s Artemis Racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was hired about two years ago to coach the New York Yacht Club American Magic. The mission was to win the 37th America\u2019s Cup, returning the Cup to the yacht club that held it for 132 years. The mission starts Aug. 22 when American Magic gets its first close-up look at the four challengers \u2013 Britain, Italy, Switzerland, and France \u2013 and defending champion Emirates Team New Zealand in preliminary regatta. The racing starts for real Aug. 29 with the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup round-robin regatta. The regatta\u2019s winner will face New Zealand for the America\u2019s Cup, starting Oct. 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In those two years readying for the Cup, American Magic has put together its eight-man crew and substitutes and built a brand new AC75, the 75-foot-long monohull racing yacht that the Cup adopted in 2021. The yacht \u2013 Patriot \u2013 was the work of the club\u2019s more than 40 engineers, about a third of the club\u2019s total workforce. Patriot was built in Portsmouth at the yacht club\u2019s manufacturing facility and flown to Barcelona on a huge Antonov cargo plane. <\/p>\n\n\n
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\u201cThe whole technology, construction, and design side is really a big part of the program with America\u2019s Cup teams,\u201d he says. \u201cSo that\u2019s really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked about his role as head coach, his first thoughts go to creating an inclusive team atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy real goal, my focus as a coach, is to create the environment for learning \u2026 where people feel comfortable asking questions and allowing themselves to be open to input, feedback and learning together,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the crew practices off the Port of Barcelona, Burnham coaches from a chase boat, following behind Patriot and communicating directly with its crew. When racing begins, he will be in the chase boat, but stationed to the side of the race course and not allowed communication with Patriot. \u201cThat\u2019s part of the reason why fostering this atmosphere and getting guys to work together and problem-solve is so important,\u201d he says. \u201cThey have to be self-reliant and deal with things as they come up while they\u2019re racing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The crew will get to start testing their pre-race preparation when the preliminary regatta starts. It\u2019s strictly a dress rehearsal for organizers and racing teams \u2013 no one\u2019s keeping points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re working through different starting strategies and techniques on how we\u2019re sailing the boat. Then there\u2019s the new technology going on the boat every day,\u201d Burnham says about their practices. \u201c[We\u2019re deciding] how much we want to keep changing things and continuing to evolve; or, do we lock down some of the technology so we can be consistent with how we\u2019re sailing the boat. Because you learn it really well when it\u2019s not changing as much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked to handicap the Cup, Burnham starts with his standard line: It will be close and come down to execution on race day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he adds: \u201cI certainly like our sailing team \u2026 and I think the boats are going to be relatively similar. There are going to be some boats that have better days than others in terms of wind conditions. There might be some teams that are great in heavy air but not so good in light air. These are all things we\u2019re going to find out in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think that we\u2019re doing well and we\u2019re in a good place, but I\u2019m certainly not overconfident about it either.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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