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Sail-World New Zealand: 8 August 2010
Sail-World New Zealand: 8 August 2010
The America's Cup and its ancillary regattas, the 1851 Cup and Louis Vuitton Trophy dominate the news in this edition.
Earlier this week, we reported some dissent in the Challenger ranks over the role of the current Challenger in the negotiations to re-establish the America's Cup onto a more solid footing.
Co-incidentally BMW Oracle CEO was in Cowes town to talk with the Extreme 40 competitors about the possible use of a multihull in the 34th America's Cup. Many feel that at present the Defender is grooming the sailing world for the use of a multihull, and a wingsailed one at that, in the next America's Cup.
The Protocol is due to be
published, a draft having already been announced, in just
three weeks time at the end of August. And the boat decision
a month after that.
Publication of the Protocol is a
somewhat academic exercise, as if past practices are
followed, it will be a living document - able to be modified
after discussion at Competitor Committee meetings.
Choice of the boat type is a more 'cast in stone' decision and once announced cannot be changed.
The on-the-water performance
of the Defender over the last nine months has not exactly
set the world on fire. Sixth out of eight at Nice in
November (albeit with the principal team working towards the
33rd America's Cup); a no-show in Auckland for the same
reason; ninth out of ten at La Maddalena; and now taking
just two match races off TeamOrigin out of eight sailed in
Cowes. Add in not competing on the TP 52 circuit (as are
many of the America's Cup teams) and it would seem, at this
early stage that the America's Cup Defenders have a bit of
work ahead of them.
Go the multihull way for the 34th
America's Cup, and BMW Oracle Racing have a big head start
on the other teams.
We also have news of the stopping of the Louis Vuitton Trophy scheduled for Hong Kong in January in early 2011. A log-jam of yet to be announced events in 2011 is said to be the issue. The final regatta in this series will now be held in Dubai, UAE in November 2010.
Apparently still waters run deep.
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