[Source: Mutua Madrilea] HRH Cristina of Spain has been named Godmother to the Spanish entry “Mutua Madrilea” in the Barcelona World Race, the only all Spanish team taking part in the regatta which kicks off on November 11th on a round the world non-stop course. Almost 500 people attended the boats official launch in Barcelonas port, where the race is due to start from next month.
The Royal Princess was joined at the event byJos Mara Ramrez Pomatta, Spanish company Mutua Madrileas President; Pere Alcober, Sports delegate for Barcelona council, Jordi Valls, Director of the Port of Barcelona and Enrique Puig, President of Barcelonas Royal Yacht Club, the Real Club Nutico de Barcelona. Read the rest of this entry »
[Source: Team Pindar] Pindar, the Open 60 built and owned by print and electronic media company Pindar, last night dismasted off the coast of Le Havre, France. Skippered by Brian Thompson, the Open 60 racing yacht was en route to Le Havre, prior to the start of the transatlantic race, the Transat Jacques Vabre, in which she was due to compete in eight days time. The mast fell backwards and then to windward onto the boat and the crew, however there were no injuries and the crew are all safe and well. The mast, rigging and sails were cut free from the hull, which suffered minimal damage, to allow the crew to motor safely into Le Havre. Read the rest of this entry »
With the continued aim of organising the 33rd Americas Cup for 2009 in Valencia with pre-regattas in 2008, a Competitors Meeting took place this morning to continue work on the Class Rule.
At the end of a constructive meeting the competitors left with a complete draft of the Class Rule and further meetings have been scheduled over the next few days in order to finalise this document and comply with the 31st October deadline for issuing the Rule.
For the competitors and AC Management this is a fundamental milestone and the focus of all our attention. As organisers of the 33rd Americas Cup we certainly welcome any other challenger to come and join the process for the last few days of Class Rules development and for the consultations on the competition and event regulations.
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Earlier today, PJ Montgomery, one of New Zealand’s most prominent sailing journalists, interviewed Tom Ehman from BMW Oracle and Hamish Ross from Alinghi on Radio NZ.
It was quite a long and interesting interview, although both men repeated most of the arguments their teams have publicly stated in the last couple of months. It seems the last hurdle before any deal can be made is for BMW Oracle to be convinced Alinghi doesn’t have a head start on the design of the new boat.
Listen to the entire 22-minute interview, using the following media player: Read the rest of this entry »
Given the fact the case in the NY Supreme Court focuses on one and only point, whether the CNEV (Club Nautico Espaol de Vela) is a valid challenger, it goes without saying that any information related to the CNEV is of primordial importance.
It has been widely reported, among others by Bob Fisher in Sail-World (undoubtedly one of the most respected and knowledgeable America’s Cup journalists), that Alinghi’s lawyer David Hille, when asked by Judge Cahn about CNEV’s annual regatta, stated it would be held in November.
That statement comes as a total surprise because if it is true, then the Challenger of Record will be having its third attempt to have an annual regatta as requested by the Deed of Gift. As a result, we contacted Manuel Chirivella, president of the CNEV, asking him to clarify the challenging club’s position in that matter. We received a statement, mentioning that “The Deed of Gift states that the challenging club must organize at least one annual regatta. Well, the CNEV has organized an Optimist regatta in Santander, the Vuelta a Espaa a Vela (Spain Sailing Tour) last September (a regatta that visited a large part of Spain’s coasts) and will organize in November a regatta in Valencia. All three events were born as annual regattas”. [Note: The translation to English is ours]. Read the rest of this entry »
What were the worst-kept secrets in Valencia last summer? Probably the fact the Larry Ellison had hired Russell Coutts and James Spithill for his 33rd America’s Cup team. Coutts was officially announced and presented as the new CEO and skipper of the team while there is still no official confirmation of James “Spitfire” joining BMW Oracle as their brand new helmsman.
According to the Latitude 38 magazine, the two star sailors were spotted last weekend, training onboard the BMW Oracle Swedish Match Racing boats. According to the magazine, they were apparently practicing match racing starts. Read the rest of this entry »
The only two active America’s Cup teams in Valencia, Desafo Espaol and United Internet Team Germany, are waisting no time and try to take advantage of any single day with appropriate wind conditions in order to train. From what we understand the two teams have started training together in the last few days. Unfortunately, October’s weather is proving to be very difficult, unlike 2005 and 2006 when teams were able to train 20-22 days throughout the whole month.
There isn’t obviously any novelty or secret as far as their boats are concerned. Both teams use the ones from the 32nd edition of the event, GER-89 for the Germans and ESP-97 for the Spanish. The photos do have a degree of interest, especially for the German team, as they show new faces on the two yachts. Read the rest of this entry »
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Francesco Bruni is the winner of the Trieste Challenge - La Sfida 2007. The Sicilian sailor’s Sailing Team Progetto Sicilia beat Team Shosholoza’s Paolo Cian 3-1 after a close and exciting final day.
Bruni started the best-of-five final with two straight victories where leadership went back and forth a couple of times, under light wind conditions. With the breeze picking up and reaching 20 knots, Paolo Cian, third in the ISAF world match racing rankings, demonstrated his skills in the third race and beat Bruni who was unable to escape from Cian’s close marking. Read the rest of this entry »
Instead of biting your nails while the whole sailing world is holding its breath until Justice Cahn of the NY Supreme Court sits and listens to the arguments of the lawyers from GGYC and SNG, why don’t you try to figure out what we photographed earlier today?
