"Not often does it come down to the last gybe as to whether or not you win a championship," says Bora Gulari, whose New England Ropes team narrowly defeated Nathan Wilmot and Conor Clarke's Embar team at this 38-boat affair on Wisconsin's Lake Geneva.

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