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Alinghi Weather conditions on Lake Geneva were light today for the start of the Geneva-Rolle-Geneva 35 nautical mile race.

Alinghi Alinghi bowman Piet van Nieuwenhuyzen, keeping up to date with grand prix racing, was spotted in Marseille at the Audi M…

After a trip that lasted 3 days aboard an Antonov cargo plane, Telefonica Negro, the Spanish VOR team’s black boat, is now sound and safe in her base in Alicante. The Farr-designed Volvo Ocean Race boat arrived at the airport early in the morning on Thursday and after another odyssey that lasted almost 10 hours she was unwrapped in the team base in the afternoon.

[Source: Golden Gate Yacht Club] The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) said it was very pleased with today’s hearing before the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court and looked forward to an expedited decision that would enable the next America’s Cup match to be held as soon as possible.

[Source: Alinghi] The Société Nautique de Genève (SNG), the America’s Cup Defender, today put its case to the five judges sitting in the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. The Swiss yacht club successfully consolidated its appeal from Justice Cahn’s 12 May 2008 order with the previously expedited 14 April 2008 appeal. Now it continues to wish for a speedy resolution and to conclude the litigation initiated by the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) almost a year ago.

[Source: AUDI Medcup] Platoon powered by Team Germany, steered by triple Olympic gold medallist and double America’s Cup Winner Jochen Schuemann (GER) emerged unscathed from a dramatic and exciting coastal race to take the best of the points available, winning both sections of the 39 miles passage to Cassis and back, on the third day of racing at the City of Marseille Trophy, the second regatta of the Audi MedCup Circuit.

Here are the first images from the arrival of the brand new “Telefonica Negro” VOR boat from New Zealand.

The details are still unclear but it appears that two collisions took place at the first weather mark of today’s coastal race, forcing three boats, Matador, Caixa Galicia and Mutua Madrileña, to retire and head back to port.

Alinghi The Alinghi Décision 35 (D35) crew is limbering up this week in preparation for the 44th edition of the Geneva – Rolle – Geneva, a 35nm (…

The jury ruled in favor of BMW Oracle and gave them 3 points in Wednesday’s 2nd race (Race 5 of the event) instead of the 10 they had initially received. The American team, together with Mutua Madrileña, AUDI Q8 and Cristabella were found to have crossed the starting line too early but Russell Coutts and James Spithill immediately raised the protest flag.

If the opening day of the regatta offered a modest introduction to ‘Mistral-lite’ conditions, 15-19 knots, today’s two windward-leeward contests met with conditions much closer to the upper racing limit for the Audi MedCup Fleet of TP52’s.

[Source: AUDI Medcup] The MedCup in France carries memories the international crew of the Argentine TP52 Matador will be happy to bury today. In Hyeres last year they broke their mast during the final regatta of the season and had to consign to the deep their hopes of a top three finish overall. But today the international crew mastered the Mistral and used the awkward swell to best effect and emerged from the three excellent races leading the regattas by just one point.

[Source: BMW Oracle] BMW ORACLE Racing said today that it will compete only at the Marseille stop of this year’s Audi MedCup Circuit as the team’s number one priority is to now get ready for the next America’s Cup.

After a year of inactivity in Valencia, Shosholoza’s RSA-83 is back on the water, this time in Naples, Italy. The South African America’s Cup boat took part in Velalonga, one of the most popular sailing events held in the southern Italian city. More than a racing event, the Velalonga is a popular nautical festival and the brightly colored boat, once the pinnacle of sailing technology, had to share the Gulf of Naples together with another 200 boats.

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La Ministra de Administraciones Públicas, Elena Salgado comparece ante los medios en la abarrotada entrada del edificio Veles e Vents, en el puerto de Valencia.

[Source: AUDI MedCup] It was an opportunist’s victory for Mean Machine, gained on the final gybe of the practice race for the City of Marseille Trophy regatta, but today’s race is a clear indication that Peter de Ridder’s crew are ready to win again.

Alinghi Alinghi claimed a fifth overall at the first of the iShares series on home waters in Lugano – it was a weekend of highs and lows; day one b…

[Source: RC44] The Slovenian team Ceeref confirms its new leadership over the RC 44 Class. After having won the match race event, Igor Lah and James Spithill have also conquered the fleet regatta ahead of Chris Bake’s Team Aqua and Patrick de Barros’ Banco Espirito Santo. The latter is the winner of the long distance DHL Trophy.

Alinghi The wind continued to play hide and seek with the fleet on the final day of the Lugano iShares Cup, but the committee managed to squeeze …

No racing took place on the fourth day of the RC 44 Austria Cup.

Alinghi Alinghi was back on the water bright and early this morning with a new mast in place, the crew having spent most of Friday evening riggin…

Alinghi While waiting for a puff of wind and racing to recommence, Alinghi had an unexpected and very welcome visit from the local Lugano optimis…

Alinghi Alinghi relaunched the X40 this morning at 0730 in Lugano having worked late to rig the replacement mast and get the boat ready to race.

It was interesting but it wasn’t what we were expecting or what we would have liked to listen or see. This pretty much sums up Friday night’s presentation by Tom Ehman, head of external affairs, and Manolo Ruiz de Elvira, senior designer, at the premises of Valencia’s yacht club. The two men from America’s Cup Challenger of Record BMW Oracle talked to an audience of around 40 people on the America’s Cup for about an hour and a half, touching almost all aspects of the world’s oldest sports competition, ranging from its history to the most recent legal issues and the current state of affairs of their own team.

[Source: RC 44] With Igor Lah at the helm and James Spithill calling the shots, the Slovenian team had another excellent series on day one of the fleet race event of the RC 44 Austria Cup, taking the lead ahead of Team Aqua and Team Banco Espirito Santo.

Alinghi As Alinghi was climbing into second place on race one of the Lugano iShares Cup, the fleet was hit by a violent gust during a stormy squa…

The Alinghi White Extreme 40 catamaran capsized in the Lugano lake, where the opening event of the 2008 iShares Cup is taking place.

BMW Oracle, the Challenger of Record for the 33rd America’s Cup, will hold a presentation tonight at 8pm, local time, in Valencia’s Yacht Club.

[Source: Quebramar GP42 Cup] After an eventful start in Santa Margherita, Italy, the GP42 fleet will now move to Saint-Tropez, France for the second event of the Quebramar GP42 Cup, the Giraglia Rolex Cup, held from June 8th to 10th.

Alinghi Lugano, CH (30 May 2008, 14:40): During race 1 in Lugano, a squall hit the race course and the Alinghi X40 capsized.

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