The skipper was Russell Coutts and the crew included Brad Butterworth, Tom Schnackenberg, Murray Jones, Tony Rae, Kevin Shoebridge and Craig Monk.

Co-designed by Doug Peterson and Laurie Davidson, their boat showed a significant jump forward in speed.

AUS-35 was then constructed through a partnership agreement with the Australian Challenge – a deal that, it was claimed, violated the two boats per syndicate rule.

She performed well until halfway through its match race of 5 March 1995, when it suddenly broke in half in heavy seas and sank within two minutes.

The crew included Adam Beashel, navigator Andrew Cape,[8] Iain Murray, Matt Mitchell,[9] Billy Bates, Mark Richards, Alan Smith,[10] Don McCracken and Rod Davis.

From Yacht Club de Sete and skippered by Marc Pajot, France America '95 failed to live up to expectations in 1995.

The crew included Bertrand Pacé, Jan Dekker, Yann Gouniot, Christian Karcher and Bernard Labro,[14] and Harold Cudmore was an advisor.

[16] Tutukaka Challenge was run on a shoe string budget that saw the team nearly not make it to San Diego until the intervention of Tag Heuer.