The Louis Vuitton Cup: 25 Years of Yacht Racing in Pursuit of the America's Cup
Messing About In Sailboats (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
According to readers of this blog, nearly half feel that the America's Cup has lost its premiere position to other events (e.g. VOR, LV Cup, etc). A few feel that it was always over-rated. A third feel that it will...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Team Origin, the America's Cup team founded by U.K. businessman Keith Mills, will attempt to capture sailing's biggest prize while also tackling climate change.
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | yesterday
[Source: Louis Vuitton Trophy] The team from the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda makes a triumphant return after a 22-year hiatus. Even before the Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Côte d’Azur began, Azzurra skipper Francesco Bruni spoke of his passion and honour to be leading an iconic sailing brand back into the fray after a long absence. This afternoon he could barely describe his joy. Bruni and his...
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
[Source: Cammas-Groupama] Groupama 3 arrived in Cape Town early this Saturday afternoon and immediately tied up alongside so as repairs could begin to reinforce the aft beams. It was at around 1300 hours UTC that Franck Cammas and his nine crew made landfall after two weeks at sea: Groupama 3 had to abandon her Jules Verne Trophy record attempt on the eleventh day after breaking the port beam bulkhead....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A disappointing fourth was the reward for Ben Ainslie and Britain’s America’s Cup challenger Team Origin in the Louis Vuitton Trophy series off Nice.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A New York court backed the staging of the next America’s Cup in the Spanish port of Valencia in February.
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A New York court Thursday backed the staging of the next America's Cup in the Spanish port of Valencia in February, but doubt still remained over the venue for the duel between defender Alinghi and US challenger Oracle.
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
[Source: BMW Oracle] The New York Supreme Court has moved the 33rd America’s Cup match another significant step closer to be being sailed under the normal, fair rules of sailing. Justice Shirley Kornreich has adopted the unanimous recommendations made by the Expert Panel which took testimony from both Golden Gate Yacht Club and the defending Société Nautique de Geneve in New York...
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
[Source: Alinghi] Fred Meyer, SNG vice-commodore: “New York Supreme Court Justice Kornreich has brought a degree more certainty to the 33rd America's Cup today. It is good to at last have her decision on some of the pending issues. Alinghi continues to focus on its training programme ahead of the Match for the 33rd America's Cup against BMW Oracle on 8 February 2010.”
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A New York court Thursday backed the staging of the next America's Cup in the Spanish port of Valencia in February, but doubt still remained over the venue for the duel between defender Alinghi and US challenger Oracle. The Supreme Court of the State of New York reached its decision after experts advised that the event can be safely managed at the venue in mid-winter, when weather conditions can be...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Extra pressure poured on the Swiss holder of the America's Cup, Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi, following the latest ruling from New York judge, Shirley Kornreich.
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Related PDF Documents - Justice Kornreich Order, dated 19 November 2009 Justice Kornreich issued today her order on the remaining 5 issues (Load water-line measurement, safety of holding race in Valencia in February, date of issue of NoR and other rules, date of appointment of Panel of jurors, and whether the agreement between ISAF and Alinghi provides for an independent and objective Panel of jurors)....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
• Outcome almost certainly decided by race official at first mark • TeamOrigin claim call should have been in British boat's favour Britain's TeamOrigin lost the first of its best-of-three semi-final match with the Italian team Azzurra, in a regatta for America's Cup challengers in Nice. The outcome was almost certainly decided by the refusal of an overlap by a race official at the first...
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
[Source: Alinghi] The America’s Cup Defender Alinghi is completing its current phase of the Alinghi 5 development programme today in Ras Al Khaimah and over the next few days will wheel the giant catamaran into the boat shed for some modifications. The next phase will keep the team busy up until it ships out to Valencia to continue developing towards the February 8 2010 America’s Cup Match....
So Quoted (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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