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.
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Amended Protocol published after Competitor Meeting agreements
Saturday, March 28th, 2009The sailing clubs of the America’s Cup meet in Valencia talking about the 33th edition.
Saturday, March 28th, 2009Alinghi’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.
BMW Oracle will not participate in any regatta organised by Alinghi
Saturday, March 28th, 2009The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC), represented in the America’s Cup by BMW Oracle has communicated officially to the Societe Nautique de Geneve (SNG), represented by Alinghi, who did not get part in any race organized by the club in reference to the terms in which there is the next edition of the competition he calls the “Cup Alinghi.” The club in San Francisco yesterday released a letter sent by his Commodore Marcus Young, the Swiss yacht club Commodore, Pierre-Yves Firmenich, which has been informed of this decision, before the meeting of participating teams in the competition scheduled in Geneva for the next day 15. The GGYC “does not consider legitimate” the next America’s Cup which, in the absence of confirmation, will be held in 2009 in Valencia, as have virtually guaranteed in Spain local governments, regional and central levels during the last week, finding that no compliance with the terms of the rules of the competition ( “Deed of Gift”). “The Court of New York has given the date of February 10 2009 to present oral arguments and it is hoped that the outcome of our appeal is known in March, which seems to us a reasonable delay to make decisions on future America’s Cup, “added Commodore U.S. yacht club. “In the past seventeen months, we have made many constructive suggestions which have been systematically rejected by the NGA, he has written its own rules for the next edition of the Cup,” he adds. “We need a ‘Challenger of Record’ skilled, strong and independent and now poses a different kind of race, but without many top-level competitors, without major sponsors, without taking into account the 157-year history of the competition, so with the position of the NGA can not be an America’s Cup, will be only one Cup Alinghi and this is not a good reason for us to participate, “concludes the letter.
Judge orders America’s Cup race for March 2009
Saturday, March 28th, 2009NEW YORK (Reuters) – The America’s Cup match race between holders Alinghi and challenger BMW Oracle is to be held in mid-March of 2009, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled on Monday.
Judge Herman Cahn ordered the showdown race to take place in 10 months’ time in Valencia, Spain, or any other location chosen by Alinghi’s yacht club SNG (Societe Nautique de Geneve) provided it notifies the challenger at least six months ahead.
The judge said SNG and the challenging Golden Gate Yacht Club “may engage in a mutual consent process” and arrange satisfactory dates, courses and rules for the 33rd America’s Cup in accordance with the Deed of Gift governing the event.
Judge Cahn ruled last November that BMW Oracle should be the challengers of record for the next edition of yachting’s biggest prize rather than CNEV, the Spanish club favored by Alinghi.
“We are pleased that the Court has advanced the process and required the defender to confirm the venue,” Golden Gate Yacht Club spokesman Tom Ehman said. “We will now be considering the order to determine our next steps.”
The ruling set up a best-of-three, head-to-head series for the America’s Cup rather than the usual multi-boat competition to determine a challenger.
As challenger, BMW Oracle can name the type of boat to be used for the race and they have said they will opt for large-scale multi-hull boats. The challengers were pressing to hold the event in October 2008.
Alinghi argued that the preparation time allowed for in the yachting competition’s 121-year-old rules should push the date to May 2009 to give them ample time to get ready.
Lucien Masmejan, lead counsel for Alinghi, said they would ideally prefer to hold the races in July, given that March was not a regular sailing time in the northern hemisphere.
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Today is the deadline for the 33th America’s Cup
Monday, December 15th, 2008The registration of teams to participate in the 33rd edition of the America’s Cup sailing, whose headquarters and timing have not been completed, is closed today, Monday, with the possibility of it becoming the largest in the history of the competition . EFE According to the organization of this centuries-Regatta, today, besides the defender Alinghi (Nautical Society of Geneva) and the “challenger of record” Desafio Espanol (Spanish Club Nautico de Vela, Spain), there are fourteen other teams arrived, while four other unions are in the administrative process of registration. Among the teams entered are six that have already participated in the last edition of the America’s Cup, held in summer 2007 in Valencia and in which the Swiss team was proclaimed champions of Jarra and retained the Hundred Guineas. Among them, besides Spanish, are the Team Shosholoza (Royal Cape Yacht Club-South Africa), Emirates Team New Zealand (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, New Zealand), Victory Challenge (Gamla Stans Yacht Sällskap-Sweden), Team Germany ( Deutscher Challenger Yacht Club) and Mascalzone Latino (Royal Yacht Club Canottieri Savoia-Italy). Alongside them, new TeamOrigin (Royal Thames Yacht Club-UK), Green Comm (Challenge di Circolo Vela Gargano, Italy), Ayre (Royal Yacht Club of Denia, Spain), Argo Challenge (Club Nautico di Gaeta, Italy) , French Spirit (Yacht Club de Saint Tropez, France) and the Carbon Challenge of Belgium, whose club prefers not to reveal. Of the other three teams arrived, has transcended that one of them is the Luna Rossa (Yacht Club Italiano, Italy), while the other two, one is of Russian nationality and the other is also Italian. Regarding the other four teams that are in the process of registration, the Swiss team sources indicated that they are in different stages of processing and that the same could confirm their participation in the 33 America’s Cup four, that any of them or none. In the case of a positive way to solve their registration, the next America’s Cup, whose headquarters would be Valencia, according to the consensus of the participants and is held in 2010 or 2011, because the various Spanish authorities involved in the organization of the test have bet because it is held in this city. The Cup would be the presence of twenty teams, the highest figure in the history of the competition and the possibility of confirmation of the entry of so many teams, one difficulty that arises is that of achieving bases for all. The capacity of the port of Valencia is limited to “thirteen, fourteen or fifteen bases if it is stretched far” but since Alinhgi indicated that they prefer to focus on the problems when they arise and no further developments. One of the options being considered to increase the number of facilities for the different teams, in the event that finally the U.S. syndicate BMW-Oracle, as announced, did not participate in the 33rd America’s Cup, would be to divide the building Now his home base in two different locations. On Monday, at 17:00 pm is the deadline for registration for a competition revived, but with an uncertain future in the hope of resolving the legal dispute that the BMW-Oracle (Golden Gate Yacht Club) continues against Alinghi in the Supreme Court of New York and whose outcome will be known by mid-year 2009.
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