Video Offshore Powerboat – Twin Outboard Powered 27 Eliminator running the St Johns River – We took the boats on a 100 mile run today. This video was shot from a 28 Skater. [He had no problem keeping up]
If you’re a law student and wondering what would be a lucrative field to enter, give serious consideration to becoming a lawyer for the Swiss or American teams fighting over the rules for the next America’s Cup. It’s looking like this dispute will carry you into retirement.
American billionaire Larry Ellison has filed new legal actions accusing Ernesto Bertarelli, his Swiss billionaire counterpart, of willfully misinterpreting and changing long-established rules in an effort to disqualify Ellison’s BMW-Oracle trimaran from even sailing in the America’s Cup scheduled for Feb. 8 at Ras al Khaimah on the Persian Gulf.
BMW-Oracle, which represents San Francisco’s Golden Gate Yacht Club, also wants … Details
Fred Meyer, Vice-Commodore of the Societe Nautique de Geneve, current Defenders of the America’s Cup, has issued the following statement commenting on the America’s Cup latest litigation initiated by the Challenger, Golden Gate YC.
‘It’s a shame that BMW Oracle and Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) persist with their campaign to win the America’s Cup through litigation rather than on the water. This is the sixth time that they’ve taken the Defender to court. It is possible that Larry Ellison continues to revert to the courts to draw attention away from the fact that their boat does not meet the dimensions as per their Certificate of Challenge…Â DetailsÂ
Tom Ehman, of Golden Gate Yacht Club has issued the following statement regarding motions filed in the New York Supreme Court today.
‘We have asked the Supreme Court of the State of New York to take several steps to ensure that the 33rd America’s Cup is run in accordance with the Deed of Gift.
