Much of what we have written since the Appeal Court Decision of 2 April has come from various sources, international and local, close to the America’s Cup action, who won’t be quoted but are reasonably happy to talk off the record, on a ‘not to be attributed’ basis.
The situation, as we hear it today, runs something like this:
Alinghi is said to be engaging boat builders and has an accelerated building program underway – picked up since the 2 April Decision.
There has been little real contact between the two parties Golden Gate YC and Societe Nautique de Geneve, save for an opening email from the Swiss side which ruled out a Multi Challenger event. Whether that is the current position is …Â Details
Legendary British yachtsman Tony Bullimore’s long list of offshore adventures and accomplishments is unparalleled. In a career that’s spanned four decades and over 400,000 competitive nautical miles, Bullimore has recorded victories in the Round Britain Race, the Round Europe Race, a pair of Transatlantic contests, and the Rolex Fastnet and Middle Sea Races.
Bullimore earned worldwide notice and acclaim after surviving five long days following a capsize in the Southern Ocean in the 1996 Vendee Globe solo race around the planet, and later tackled those same stormy seas while registering a second in the Oryx Quest round-the-world race.
Now, Tony Bullimore is setting sail aboard his well-tested, 102-foot catamaran in yet another world-class yachting event: the 2009 edition of Antigua Sailing Week.
‘The boat has been renamed Spirit of Antigua…Â Details
Photographer Rick Tomlinson was again on the water for the start of the VOR leg to Boston. He was having a ‘swell time’ …Â Details and great pictures
A British man who has just claimed the world land sailing speed record is now planning to better his speed — on ice.
Using just wind power, Richard Jenkins drove his vehicle, the Greenbird, to 202 km/hour (126 miles/hour) in late March on the dry Lake Ivanpah near the border of California and Nevada in the western United States…Â Details and Pictures