Top yachting journalist and author, Bob Fisher gives his view in the next moves in the America’s Cup:
Recriminations offer solace only to those who make them.
Progress is made by those with vision.
The clouds of war are rolling away, or at least there is a break in the sky, so that the America’s Cup problems should shortly be resolved.
Both Ernesto Bertarelli and Larry Ellison have publicly stated that their primary wish is for a multi-challenger event as soon as possible. To facilitate that would require compromise on both sides and that, it would seem, could be the sticking point…Â DetailsÂ
As the portents point increasingly towards a Deed of Gift Match, for the 33rd America’s Cup in multihulls. ValenciaSailing.com report on the latest developments in Valencia, likely venue for the DoG Match:
Unless Alinghi and BMW Oracle reach an agreement towards the celebration of a multi-challenger conventional America’s Cup, one could say that the starting gun of the 33rd America’s Cup was fired early this afternoon in Valencia…Â DetailsÂ
The California International Sailing Association ordered up perfect conditions Sunday for the teenagers attending its 32nd annual Advanced Racing Clinic at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, so … how about starting the day with an energetic workout on the beach?
It wasn’t on the schedule and had never been done in previous clinics. But director Andrew Campbell took advantage of moderate spring breeze and temperatures in the mid-70s to turn the group over to fitness instructor Harry Legum, who managed to convince most of the 113 teenagers from 12 states coast to coast and Hawaii that pushups and carrying one another piggyback in deep sand would make them better sailors…Â DetailsÂ
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