It was a big day in Valencia, Spain today when the Alinghi Defender Team accepted the Challenger of Record, BMW Oracle’s challenge to race their 90 x 90 multihulls. This much we know. In conflicting reports on the web, I have seen that Oracle is also pushing to drop back to ACC V5.0 designs and open [...]

Yesterday the New York Court of Appeals ruled that BMW Oracle and their Golden Gate Yacht Club is the Challenger of Record for the next America’s Cup. This in effect denied the paper yacht club set up between Valencia and Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi. This was done at the close of the 2007 AC in an attempt to [...]