{"id":7185,"date":"2009-04-03T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:02:08","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-is-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7185","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; America&#8217;s Cup is back on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7186\" title=\"bmw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/bmw-150x96.jpg\" alt=\"bmw\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bmw-150x96.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bmw.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The America&#8217;s Cup action is leaving the courtrooms and heading out to the water.\u00c2\u00a0 We hope.\u00c2\u00a0 In a unanimous decision, the New York Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) being the Challenger of Record for the 33rd America&#8217;s Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Immediately after the conclusion of the 32nd America&#8217;s Cup in 2007, the winner, Alinghi, selected a &#8220;paper&#8221; yacht club, Club Nautico Espanol de Velo (CNEV), as the challenger of record.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem was that CNEV didn&#8217;t actually satisfy any of the conditions to be the challenger&#8230;things like members, previous races, a clubhouse, not even, as famously pointed out, a web page.\u00c2\u00a0 So our long legal battle started, GGYC sued in the New York Courts (home of the Deed of Gift), they won then they lost on appeal and then had a tie and finally yesterday won what seems like the final legal battle&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-3070-SF-Sailing-Examiner~y2009m4d2-Americas-Cup-is-back-on\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/placeholder-3700994?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The America&#8217;s Cup action is leaving the courtrooms and heading out to the water.\u00c2\u00a0 We hope.\u00c2\u00a0 In a unanimous decision, the New York Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) being the Challenger of Record for the 33rd America&#8217;s Cup. Immediately after the conclusion of the 32nd America&#8217;s Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}