This time he will no longer lead you. America's Cup, Dennis Conner, felt it will be his compatriot Mike Buckley, under the grinder of the Long Beach Yacht Club... this way the United States will have two challenges, the other is the 'American Magic' of the New York Yacht Club

The mythical challenge to America's Cup, 'Stars & Stripes' will again compete to recover the Guinean One-hundred Jar for the United States, and will be put into play in 2021 in Auckland (New Zealand). It will not be with the AC class with which they lived true match race, but it will return to the water the memory of those challenges of the end of the last century.

Founded in 1929, the Long Beach Yacht Club California is famous for organizing the Congressional Cup, the world's most important match race event outside the America's Cup. Since 1965 it has attracted the best patterns in the world is the post of the coveted trophy of the competition, the red jacket, called 'Crimson Blazer'.

The name 'Stars & Stripes Team USA', which has been authorized by Dennis Conner himself, "is a tribute to Dennis Conner's' Stars & Stripes' campaigns that defended America's Cup for Americans for decades... we are the next generation!...", co-founder Mike Buckley has declared.

Working with Buckley, there is the world champion of Match Racing, Taylor Canfield, who has been chosen as the best pattern by the World Sailing in three of the last five years and has been four times the winner of the Congressional Cup.

The team's executive director is Justin Shaffer, from Major League Baseball and Facebook. The operations will be coordinated by Tod Reynolds, who led the America's Cup World Series in Chicago in 2016 and the general director will be Melinda Erkelens, an industry veteran who has participated in five American's Cup campaigns

In front of the design team is J.B. Braun, who was part of the Oracle Team USA team in 2013 and 2017, and who has already started building his AC75 for the Michigan competition, thanks to a design and technology package purchased from Emirates Team New Zealand.

In this way and with the registration of the 'Stars & Stripes', Team New Zealand, the Defender, has already confirmed four candidates; the Italian 'Luna Rossa' - Challenger of Record-, the American Magic, the British 'INEOS Team UK' and the Italian-Maltese 'Malta Altus Challenge'.