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Alinghi Performance Programme
Brad Butterworth, Alinghi team skipper, joined Christoph Bottoni today in Zurich to race a 5.5-M exhibition regatta called ‘Fascination Voile’. The event is organised and hosted by Swiss Sailing Team and the Zurich Yacht Club with the aim of promoting, supporting and developing the Swiss Olympic Tea...
GGYC welcomes decision of Appellate Court
GGYC welcomes decision of Appellate Court to reject Alinghi bid for more delay The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) said today it is pleased the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court has today rejected a further effort by the defender to stay proceedings pending its upcoming appeal....
Busy sailing season for BMW ORACLE Racing
Following the season-opening regatta in RC 44s in Italy, the sailing team gears up this month for a very full program competing in RC 44s, TP 52s and Extreme 40 catamarans in Spain, Austria and France....
Alinghi launches "Le Black" in Valencia…
The 41footer has been reassembled in Valencia and set off for a shakedown sail today with Ernesto Bertarelli at the helm. ...
Beauties and the Beast
The Alinghi design team has been facing and continues to face some extraordinary challenges in the months ahead, responsibility towards the safety of their team mates, the sailors, weighs heavily on them and while all are excited by the design complexities of the ‘off the scale’ multi-hull, the team...
BMW ORACLE Racing partners with VPLP in design of AC Multi
The leading French multihull design firm of Van Peteghem / Lauriot Prévost (VPLP) are working with BMW ORACLE Racing’s design team in developing its new mulithull boat for the America’s Cup Deed of Gift match, the team confirmed today. ...
TEAMORIGIN lower its activity and enter the IShares Circuit
With the America’s Cup’s immediate future still in the hands of the New York courts the 33rd (and 34th!) Cup cycles are still on hold. Consequently it has been a testing few months for TEAMORIGIN, Britain’s America’s Cup Team. ...
A chance for sport to reclaim the America’s Cup?
General Counsel of Team Alinghi and long time America's Cup historian, Hamish Ross, here expresses a personal view of the background to the various occasions when America's Cup players have considered legal action, and how the current players and sport now has an opportunity to reclaim the America’s...
Summer sailing schedule revealed
Find out what is in store for the Alinghi sailing squad this summer! Hear from Brad Butterworth, team skipper, John Barnitt, sports director, and Ed Baird, helmsman, on how the team is preparing for a multi-hull America’s Cup duel while continuing to hone its performance monohull racing skills. Don’...
GGYC’s Customs House Certificate still missing...
There has been speculation over recent weeks as to the nature and relevance of the information and documentation that the Société Nautique de Genève (SNG) – represented by Alinghi, Defender of the America’s Cup – requires from the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) as per the Deed of Gift. Tom Schnackenb...