The Defender of the America’s Cup, Societe Nautique de Geneve, has released the motion it has filed with the New York Supreme Court to require Challenger to file the required Customs House Registry documents. Click here to read.
At first glance, the action would seem to be doomed to failure.
As discussed in an earlier commentary, the exercise seems to be a fishing expedition, not unknown in the America’s Cup, designed to corner the Challenger, or extract some small advantage, from the Golden Gate Yacht Club.
SNG calls for GGYC to be either disqualified from the event for not complying with the requirement of the Deed of Gift that the ‘customs-house registry must also be sent as as possible’…Â Details & PicturesÂ
The Defender of the America’s Cup, Societe Nautique de Geneve has issued a letter to Golden Gate Yacht Club calling for a second mutual consent meeting ahead of the NY Supreme Court Hearing on 14 May 2009.
The new meeting is scheduled for just three days prior on 11 May.
In the letter the club expresses surprise at the turn of events following the first meeting on 23 April, claiming that they announced the proposed dates of the 33rd America’s Cup and there was no reply or response at the Meeting from the three Golden Gate Yacht Club representatives present.
The letter comes on the same day as the announcement of a potential multihull challenger for the latest America’s Cup event…Â Details
Though she will be impressed by some prominent names entered in the New York Yacht Club’s inaugural Invitational Cup, you can be sure Marie Klok Crump can hold her own in a room full of sailing standouts.
From Ã…rhus, Denmark and now living in Newport, R.I., the tall blonde Scandinavian has been a top-ranked women’s match racer since the mid-nineties, ranking as high as number two in the ISAF Women’s World Match Race circuit and crowned twice as the Danish Match Race Champion (’94, ’96). As a member of the Danish national team, she also pursued an Olympic campaign in the Yngling women’s keelboat for the 2004 games in Athens. This September 15-19, however, she will lead the Royal Danish Yacht Club’s co-ed entry in the NYYC’s Invitational Cup, which is set to host 18 yacht club teams from 14 nations in Newport, R.I., where Crump currently resides and where the club’s on-the-water clubhouse, Harbour Court, is located.
‘This will be a very special event,’ said …Â Details
