$25,000 reward for return of Roy Lichtenstein's lost spinnaker sail

A $25,000 reward has been offered for the recovery of a spinnaker sail designed by Roy Lichtenstein for the yacht Young America, which competed in the 1995 America's Cup. The sail has been missing for years. The yacht's hull, featuring Lichtenstein's graphic of a golden-haired mermaid, is currently on display at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in Vermont. The exhibition, which opened on May 26 and runs until August 13, also includes scale models and preparatory drawings by Lichtenstein, with loans from the Museum of Modern Art in Osaka. In 1994, Olympic gold medalist Kevin Mahaney, captain of the PACT95 team, commissioned Lichtenstein to design the hull and sail graphics. The artist, then 71, created a mermaid motif for the hull—a traditional nautical figurehead—and a sail design with rays of light. Before the race against New Zealand, a storm damaged the hull; repairs were made but the team did not win.