What’s up at the Golden Gate Yacht Club with barely a week to go before their trimaran hits the race one starting line at America’s Cup 33?
A fiasco, but in this case a fiasco of the finest sort.
The GGYC start/finish line over the weekend was used for the biggest sailing event of the [...]
Justice Kornreich of the New York Supreme Court informed the America’s Cup defending yacht club, Société Nautique de Genève, and the challenging Golden Gate Yacht Club today via telephone conference that she will not hear the American challenger’s complaint regarding the ‘constructed in country’ requirement of the Deed of Gift before the 33rd America’s Cup [...]
MEXORC has always been a moving target, and for 2010 it’s being redesigned yet again. This is your looking-ahead checkup, because there’s been a concern and maybe we can clear that up. But first—
The essential West-Coast-of-Mexico-biennial is now a featured component of the inaugural Regata Copa México, intended to celebrate the country’s bicentennial and then [...]
Stiff northeasteries and waves are pounding Valencia, and sailing is on hold until the winter of 2010 calms down. Meanwhile, one degree of uncertainty has been removed from the prospects for America’s Cup 33, and it launched my morning with a laugh.
Photo by Jose Delgado/Alinghi
Today americascup.com announced plans to broadcast the catamaran-trimaran match on [...]
With new, aerodynamic helm stations, the BMOR trimaran (renamed USA) sailed for the first time in Valencia on Tuesday. The wing was installed and sailed, then removed in anticipation of high winds on Wednesday.
Photo from the BMW Oracle Racing Blog
I had a couple more of those conversations today. They start with someone asking, “Are you [...]
Photo by Lucca Butto/Alinghi
I’m pretty sure the BMW Oracle folks weren’t really expecting Alinghi to apologize for what they claim are misrepresentations attributed to Alinghi skipper Brad Butterworth—regarding the breakup of the Singapore negotiations—but for the record, Golden Gate YC commodore Marcus Young did request an apology in a January 15 letter to SNG commodore [...]
I suppose I’m obligated to report that the Singapore meeting between Alinghi and BMW Oracle Racing went bust, with none of the mutual agreement that is needed to get two AC boats around a racecourse, and the teams are returning to the New York courts to discuss the origins of Alinghi’s sails, whether from Minden [...]
There’s a line by the poet, Theodore Roethke, “I learn by going where I have to go.”
It applies doubly to the sailing life.
When the ketch 4-P.A.C.K. set out from California on Valentine’s Day, 2007, Karl and Andrea Matson-deKay knew the sailing life inside and out. Before kids, they had spent two [...]
The Sailing Instructions released Friday for America’s Cup 33 ratchet up the pressure as we hurtle toward Tuesday’s meeting in Singapore where the antagonists will (we can at least hope) resolve certain differences through the authority of the (finally) recognized international jury.
Parking wars, for example.
Because of the big wing that can’t be completely [...]