This documentary feature film was made and released about a year after the USA had lost the America's Cup to Australia in 1983 and about three years before America won it back in 1987.
This Australian feature documentary premiered in Australian cinemas on Australia Day, January 26 1984, only four months to the day, after Australia II had won the Americas Cup, on 26th September 1983.
The loss of the America's Cup by the USA to Australia in 1983 broke the longest ever running winning streak in world sports history which had run for 132 years.
This documentary was made and released about eight years before the theatrical feature film Wind (1992) which fictionalized Australia's winning of the America's Cup and then the USA's winning of the cup back afterwards.
The name of the Australian boat that won the America's Cup was "Australia II". The name of the American boat that the Aussie yacht beat to win the America's Cup was "Liberty".