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  The first-ever South African AC Challenge ? (12/10/03)
 
(source : Sunday Star Times quoted by Cheryl@2003ac.com)

Grant Simmer, coordinator of the Alinghi Design Team, said in the New Zealand's newspaper Sunday Star Times there was the possibility of South Africa's first-ever America's Cup challenge.

The South Africans had made inquiries about buying one of Alinghi’s old boats. Presumably the boat the South African’s were enquiring about is SUI-59.

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