The Australian National Maritime Museum is marking the 40 th anniversary of Australia II's historic win of the America's Cup by exhibiting Ben Lexcen's drawings of the famous keel that are in the National Maritime Collection. The exhibition, entitled Show us the Keel: Winning the America's Cup in 1983 takes us back to September 1983 when John Bertrand and his crew crossed the line to take the America's Cup from the USA for the first time in its history. In May 1981 Ben Lexcen sent this cryptic telex message from Wageningen (Netherlands) to Perth: ABOUT TO TAKE YACHT DESIGN INTO THE SPACE AGE DARTH VADER LOOKS GOOD IN COMPUTER IN 3 DIMENSION WILL TEST ON WEDNESDAY 10 th JUNE BEN SKYWALKER Lexcen had begun testing keel designs with a team at the Netherlands Ship Model Basin.

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