It’s official, the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) has confirmed that Simon McKeon’s wing sail machine is the first ‘yacht’ to officially clock over 50 knots on a 500m course.
McKeon and his team set the record in which the average top speed has now been ratified at 50.07 knots, on 26 March at Sandy Point Australia. This achievement leaves the team just short of the current outright world speed record set by kiteboard sailor Alexandre Caizergues. FRA who clocked 50.57knots over the 500m course on 4 October 2008…Â Details
A leading legal source contacted by Sail-World believes that the New York Supreme Court will get ‘very stroppy’ with Societe Nautique de Geneve, Defender of the America’s Cup when the Contempt of Court matter is heard on 14 May.
Sources have told Sail-World that they believe that while there might be some conflict between the provisions of the Deed of Gift and what was required to satisfy the timing issue created by the 10 month period in the Notice of Challenge (the minimum contemplated by the Deed of Gift), they believed that ‘the Court would have been aware of the provisions, and while it is not easy to reconcile the two, nevertheless the Court has made an Order.’Â …Â Details
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Alinghi, 33rd America’s Cup Defender, has started its 2009-2010 multihull campaign in Switzerland launching the two Décision 35 catamarans that will be used as training platforms towards a multihull America’s Cup in May 2010. The sailing team will be dedicated to multihull training, racing the Challenge Julius Baer on Lake Geneva for the rest of the season and withdrawing from other monohull commitments.
In addition to Ernesto Bertarelli’s original SUI1, the team has chartered a second Décision 35 (SUI6) for the season and the two grand prix multihulls will race the eight events that span the summer, starting on 8 May with the Grand Prix Corum.
Ed Baird will helm Alinghi SUI6 with…Â Details
As noted in this column late late week, the America’s Cup has indeed returned to the halls of the New York Supreme Court, with the filing of a Contempt of Court papers on Monday.
The legal move from Golden Gate Yacht Club follows the announcement at the Challenger/Defender Meeting on 23 April, later confirmed in writing, by Societe Nautique de Geneve that they would defend the America’s Cup in early May 2010 in apparent contravention of a New York Supreme Court Order.
While the papers raise the question of Forfeiture of the America’s Cup, the reality is that SNG are a single, long step, maybe two, away from this situation.
SNG’s view seems to be that there is an apparent contradiction between the requirements of the fifth and latest edition (1887) for of the Deed of Gift for the America’s Cup, modified in 1985 to cope with a southern hemisphere Defence by Royal Perh Yacht Club in Fremantle…Â DetailsÂ
