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David Pedrick, new CTO of the 33rd America’s Cup

Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Pedrick is the president of the Measurement Committee, which shall comprise a minimum of two additional members, whose task is to ensure compliance with the regulation AC33.
33 America’s Cup has taken a further step towards its next edition and, during their meeting held today the teams in Valencia to discuss the proposals of the rules of the competition, has appointed veteran U.S. designer David Pedrick as technical director of the race.
Grant Simmer, design coordinator for the Swiss team, said that this is a person involved in the design of America’s Cup boats since 1974 and whose appointment has emerged “from a list of several candidates proposed by the teams.”
Pedrick is the president of the Measurement Committee, which shall comprise a minimum of two additional members, whose task is to ensure compliance with the regulations and any other requirements AC33 measurement.
“It is a pleasure to be involved in the Copa America in this way, and contribute to this new class of ship is a success. The shape of the new AC33 class is well defined, but may have some gaps that we have not yet understood and which we must be aware, “he said.
In view of technical director of the race, “the building is set in a simpler manner than with the class ACC and could be situations that should be observed carefully.”
“Since this is a new class of boat and all interpretations are public, I hope that dialogue with competitors if there is such uncertainty that we feel free to ask,” wanted.
Nineteen teams entered in the 33rd edition were listed today on the Alinghi base in the port of Valencia and with the exception of Team New Zealand and China Team, were present representatives of the other teams in a meeting that started on a afternoon and lasted about four hours.
The teams also agreed to a change in the protocol more flexible exchange restrictions for equipment designers.
The group has elected two additional members of the Arbitration Panel, David Kellett (AUS), Vice President of ISAF, and Peter Leaver (GBR), British lawyer since 1967 and President of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who join Henry Peter (SUI ), Luis María Cazorla (ESP) and Graham McKenzie (NZL).
Starting today, and teams can begin to design boats that will compete in the 33 America’s Cup, scheduled for July 2010 in Valencia, which now has closed the final regulation of new vessels modifications made to the equipment.
Simmer reminded that this rule was published on January 30 last days but the team raised their arguments and suggestions and today has announced the final rule.
During prerregatas scheduled for June or July and September or October 2009 and will be held regardless of the opinion of the judges of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New York, teams will compete with the boats of the version 5 of the 32 edition.
The competitors have decided that participation in prerregatas 2009 in the old boats are binding on all equipment and the intention is to allocate the bases after confirming their participation in these prerregatas.
Also during this meeting, the fifth since the organization decided to revive the competition, teams have continued their planning for an America’s Cup in Valencia in 2010, in the hopes of a favorable ruling “of the New York courts, as Simmer wanted.
“There is going to have to wait for a resolution to organize prerregatas 2009 because that is what they want and what the teams want to Valencia,” Simmer said, he hoped to have the sentence “as soon as possible to have one plan in which to work. ”
The next meeting is scheduled for competition March 31 in Valencia.

The 33th America’s Cup in the Court

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

We will have to wait and see what happens with the race and Valencia.

And there is no option agreement because the parties have long been in two very different planes. And no messages are issued and before, when they did, it never went trails converged.

The latest media cartridge used it yesterday in Auckland, Ernesto Bertarelli. There, the owner of the Swiss syndicate out any glimmer of last-minute agreement: “It was very confusing to negotiate with them. Now we are at the end of the road and there is no other option but to wait as the judges determine.”

After 570 days of litigation, Oracle made the first claim on July 20, 2007, the problem has come to a climax. The options for the defense teams are exhausted. Behind the seven judges who must now listen to the lawyers of Alinghi, BMW Oracle and Club Náutico Español de Vela (CNEVA) and there is nothing more to litigate about the need to relate to today.

And legal issues aside, the mundane only interested in knowing what is going to decide in a room where seven judges will hear over 25 minutes to the list of lawyers for the parties after. Then, silence, meditation can be extended to about two months.

White smoke when there are only two options: Alinghi has the right or to be given to Oracle. If the judges determine color of Swiss America’s Cup will be a conventional, most probably in Valencia in 2010 or 2011 with events in 2009. Larry Ellison folded sails and powerful you will not have option to enroll in a Copa America that is now closed to new participants.

If U.S. judges throw the verdict to the homeland, the only thing to be clear is that the two unions litigants will have to see the faces in a race with the multihulls on the site to decide Alinghi.

But the other unions, which care for males. Nobody can predict when a dispute could Cup conventional. Trials and the claims could cascade of either party and prolong the problem even though the two races had already been held.

Ernesto Bertarelli provides two options, and yesterday at the press conference that took place in Auckland said: “We are ready to face any decision taken by judges of the court in New York.”

Bet on Valencia
At the press conference also asked the Swiss for the location of the hypothetical conventional America’s Cup defender and defended the America’s Cup in Valencia should be made where “we have all the bases, infrastructure and support of a city she did very well in 2007. Valencia is the most easy and good solution, “he said but warned that if no agreement was reached with the government” will have to find another alternative. ”

Bertarelli said that several cities in Europe that would be willing to host an America’s Cup in the event of negotiations not lead to Valencia.

The 19 teams registered for the AC33 approved the regulations for the new yacht design

Saturday, March 28th, 2009
ACC Version 5.0
Class AC33
Length overall
24.5m typical
26m maximum
Length waterline
18-20m
26m maximum
Beam
3.3m typical
4.8m maximum
Draft
4.1m
5.0m
Weight in measurement condition
24T
17.5T
Mast height from sheerline
32.5m
33.6m
Spinnaker area
512sqm maximum
unlimited
Mainsail area
214sqm typical
225sqm maximum
I from sheerline
26.1m
28.5m
J
8.3m
10m
Spinnaker tack from mast
11.6m (pole)
13.65m (to end of bowsprit)

The ship will have a maximum length of 26 meters, a depth of 5 and a displacement of 17.5 tons

The surface of the sail plan is greater than the ACC version 5.0 ships, but not overlapping bow and candles, as in the regulation of AC90 which was developed in 2007, the boat will have a bowsprit.

As a child will shift the AC33 will be more demanding in-bound and gives a brilliant performance in the leg.

The maximum breadth is 4.8 m, much higher than the 2007 boats.

Nineteen unions have formalized their registration for the next edition of the America’s Cup, pending the Supreme Court of New York issued a final ruling in the dispute that kept the Geneva Nautical Society and the Golden Gate Yacht Club, have made public the new regulations for the design of boats for this test.

The AC33 is designed through a series of consultations between the Ombudsman ‘Alinghi’, the Challenger of Record ‘Desafío Español’ and the other 17 teams registered. This process has been led by Tom Schnackenberg as consultant to the rules of the classroom and competition for AC Management.

Designers and team leaders of the 19 registered trade unions in the 33rd America’s Cup have met regularly in Geneva and Valencia, since the design process began in early November 2008.

Best Performance

The group has agreed to develop a ship similar in cost to the 5.0 version of the America’s Cup class, but with better performance. The rules of the AC33 evolved into a boat with a maximum length of 26 meters, a depth of 5 and a displacement of 17.5 tons.

The surface of the sail plan is greater than the ACC version 5.0 ships, but not overlapping bow and candles, as in the regulation of AC90 which was developed in 2007, the boat will have a bowsprit and the surface of the spy will only restricted by the limitations imposed by the sheets, not by measuring the dimensions.

As a child will shift the AC33 will be more demanding in-bound and gives a brilliant performance in the leg.

The maximum breadth is 4.8 m. which may seem large for those who are accustomed to the look of the ships with Version 5.0 because, in many cases, this latest generation of ships ACC not had a much greater breadth of 3 meters.

What can you expect from the new class?

Tom Schnackenberg, consultant of the rules of the classroom and competition for AC Management, explained how the whole process has been and what you can expect from the new class.

“We had a very active 10 weeks developing this new regulation for Class AC33. The process was very similar to the original AC90 and we have deliberately used many of the clauses which had already developed for it 12 months ago. Given our past experience, and we were familiar with the process and everything went very well, “he said.

“At first it was suggested that the boat had launched from the bow and stern, as well as restrictions on his sleeve, but when other designers came on the scene that quickly evolved into a kind of boat identified only by their length, weight, width and maximum draft . This allows simple measurement processes for hull and with each change implementábamos, it seemed that the boat would be faster, “he added.

“In the end it will be a little longer than the ACC version 5.0 and several tons lighter, with a sail area and a similar time lever. It promises to have a similar speed upwind and a brilliant performance in empopadas,” he concluded.

The principal designer of ‘Alinghi’, Rolf Vrolijk, for his part said that “for designers, it is always more exciting to be involved in developing a new class, rather than an existing class and highly evolved, where we only We can focus on a very detailed optimizations. ”

“This is a challenge, because it means starting from scratch and this is a class that is unlike anything to anything else we’ve seen before, so if you do your homework well, you can be competitive. Some teams can be very competitive in certain aspects of the regulation, it will be very interesting, “he said.

The opinion of the Spanish Challenge

John Cutler, technical director of ‘Desafío Español’ view on how the new class can match the potential of computers. “We are talking about a blank sheet of paper and, therefore, everyone has the opportunity to succeed and to design a boat or, possibly, to the fastest boat of all, so we believe that this is a good opportunity for all the challenges. ”

Andy Claughton, design team coordinator for TeamOrigin, the British challenger, said that “creating the new regulation has been a tremendous effort between Alinghi and challenges. The vision of the boat was clearly established: it had to be quick, current and difficult to navigate, and not prohibitively expensive to build and maintain. “

Amended Protocol published after Competitor Meeting agreements

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Following discussions and agreements between the Defender, the Challenger of Record and the entered challengers in recent Competitor Meetings in Geneva, an amended version of the 33rd America’s Cup Protocol has been published today. Click here to see a version that includes all of the amended elements. A clean version of the updated document is also available under the column ‘Documents’ on this page.

The sailing clubs of the America’s Cup meet in Valencia talking about the 33th edition.

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Alinghi’s base in the port of Valencia will host the meetings Wednesday and Thursday between nineteen teams arrived at the 33rd edition of the America’s Cup, with the aim of further defining the rules and the new class of boat that will compete with in the next edition.

Eighteen teams registered for the next edition of the competition, together with the Swiss defender, are invited to attend these meetings, which are the continuity of the three that took place in Geneva before the closing date for entries for the 33 America’s Cup last December 15.
Because of the dispute in Auckland on February 14 of Loius Vuitton Pacific Series, in which they intend to engage many of the unions of the America’s Cup, most of these teams train these days in Valencia, it was agreed that The next workshop will be held in this city.
Wednesday is expected to meet the heads of the teams to continue their negotiations on the rules that should govern the competition, while the next day will be the turn of the designers who will work to advance the design of the new class of boats for the 33 edition.
The aim of Alinghi and the organizers of the competition is at the end of this month can be published the rules of the new class.
The Swiss team chairman Ernesto Bertarelli and unions registered to continue to work to shape the America’s Cup 33, pending the High Court of New York to make its final ruling on the conflict between the U.S. team, BMW Oracle and Alinghi and that has paralyzed the competition.