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34 America’s Cup News: Mascalzone Latino Challenger of Record

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:40:37 +0000

34th America’s Cup: Russell Coutts officially announces Mascalzone Latino as the new Challenger of Record for the AC34

Golden Gate Yacht Club announced that they had accepted a challenge from Club Nautico di Roma for the America’s Cup. Club Nautico di Roma are the Challenger of Record for the 34th America’s Cup and will be represented by their sailing team Mascalzone Latino. Club Nautico di Roma submits their challenge for the America’s Cup to Golden Gate YC as behind them USA wins their match against SNG, 2 races to none.

Statement by GGYC Commodore Marcus Young

A challenge has been received from the Club Nautico di Roma. GGYC is pleased to confirm that the Italian club will be the Challenger of Record for 34th America’s Cup. We look forward to working in close partnership with CNR and their challenging team – “Mascalzone Latino” owned by world champion sailor Vincenzo Onorato – to reinvigorate the America’s Cup. Mascalzone Latino competed as a challenger for both the 2003 and 2007 America’s Cup. GGYC and CNR have pledged to start a dialogue and wide-ranging discussions with the America’s Cup community, including existing and prospective teams. The objective is to ensure that the 34th America’s Cup is built on the foundations of the competition’s unique past as well as on a shared vision for its future.

The BMW Oracle wants all teams in the 33rd America’s Cup

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:19:44 +0000

Is the first report issued by the Golden Gate Yacht Club. BMW Oracle has announced that it intends to negotiate a protocol with Alinghi for the 33rd edition of the Copa America’s involvement in allowing the competition to other teams interested, as announced by the U.S. team in a statement.
This is the first report issued by the Golden Gate Yacht Club, sailing club which competes for the BMW Oracle, after the ruling issued in New York, which meant the team as “Challger of the record and opened the possibility of This was an America’s Cup duel with three races with the exclusive participation of BMW Oracle and Alinghi defender.
In the U.S. release of the club says that this possibility “follows the decision last Thursday by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, which decided that Oracle was the ‘Challenger of Record.”
“The owner of BMW Oracle, Larry Ellison, and the president of Alinghi, Ernesto Bertarelli, has been in communication between them since the court’s decision in New York,” added the text.
“At this time, the Golden Gate Yacht Club cree that it is best to maintain communication between the parties, to achieve successful conclusions as soon as possible,” the note of the yacht club.

19 teams for the 33th America’s Cup

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:11:06 +0000

	Team	Country
1.	Alinghi	Switzerland
2.	Desafío Español	Spain
3.	Shosholoza	South Africa
4.	Team Origin	UK
5.	Team New Zealand	New Zealand
6.	DCYC	Germany
7.	Green Comm Challenge	Italy
8.	Ayre	Spain
9.	Victory Challenge	Sweden
10.	Argo Challenge	Italy
11.	Mascalzone Latino	Italy
12.	Team French Spirit	France
13.	Luna Rossa	Italy
14.	Russia Team – Fiona	Russia
15.	Joe Fly	Italy
16.	K-Challenge	France
17.	Greek Challenge	Greece
18.	Dabliu Sail Project	Italy
19.	China Team	China

A total of nineteen teams have registered for disputing 33rd edition of the America’s Cup to be held in Valencia, eight more than in the previous one, according Today communicated AC Management, organizer of the competition.
All the teams that participated in the 32nd America’s Cup, also disputed waters in Valencia, have re-enrolled for the next edition, except the U.S. BMW Oracle, which maintains a legal conflict with the organization.
In addition to the Ombudsman, and Alinghi, and the Challenger of Record, Desafio Espanol, a total of 21 teams submitted an application for registration and 17 have been accepted, although three of them are outstanding teams registered some minor details in its registration process Officer and were granted an extension until Jan. 15.
A three other teams have not been allowed to register because it has not received any further documentation that the application for registration beyond December 15, the registration deadline, while the Carbon Challenge has been withdrawn.
The teams have worked together in recent months in frequent meetings of competitors to amend the Protocol for the 33rd America’s Cup and design a new class of ship, a process that will continue in 2009 with more meetings planned and the publication of the new class of Boat scheduled for late January.
The schedule for the 33rd America’s Cup includes two pre-regattas in Valencia in 2009, pending final agreement with the city: the first in July and the second in October, in addition to the annual regatta of the Spanish Sailing Club Nautico in November, followed by the America’s Cup in 2010.