So many times the sailing world thought that finally the 33rd america’s cup will be disputed, but this time I think that it is the one.

See the nycourt Supreme Court ruling

“Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered October 30, 2009, which granted plaintiff Golden Gate Yacht Club’s (GGYC) motion for an order declaring invalid Societe Nautique De Geneva’s (SNG) selection of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (RAK) as the venue for the 33rd America’s Cup yacht race, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Order, same court and Justice, entered November 4, 2009, which, inter alia, ruled that, under the Deed of Gift governing the race, a yacht’s “rudders” may not be included in measuring its length on load water-line, unanimously affirmed, without costs. ”

So we will have a wonderful times in february seeing 2 titans competing for the old mug. But still keep finger crossed.

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Here from Bor 90 blog: “Our time in San Diego is coming to a close, and during the afternoon, one hour ahead of schedule, the BOR 90 was moved from the team base to on board the cargo ship the Ocean Lady, which will transport it to Valencia.”

We will now for sure in anytime soon if the race will be held in Valencia. The sailing world is waiting for a court decision on where the race will take place.

 Christian.

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More from Pierre Orphanidis at valencia. blogspot on 10 december 2009 .

Valencia, 10 December 2009.  Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

 Alinghi and BMW Oracle have reached on the celebration of the 33rd America’s Cup, if of course, the Appellate Division upholds Justice Kornreich’s ruling on Ras al-Khaimah not being a legitimate venue for a match in February.

It’s nice to see Valencia Sailing finally writing about sailing in Valencia, especially if it’s the America’s Cup…

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From Groupama site

Skippered by Fred Le Peutrec and sailed by a total crew of 10, Groupama 3 has thus completed her South Africa stopover. In all it has taken no less than three weeks for the maxi trimaran to be operational once again after suffering damage in the Southern Atlantic, at a point where the crew were ahead of the reference time for the Jules Verne Trophy set by Orange in 2005.

Indeed once the float bulkhead was repaired and then reinforced by the Groupama team’s shore crew, with the assistance of a handful of South African’s from Team Shosholoza, it was the generator which was to give up the ghost. Forced to order a new unit from France and have it transported down to Cape Town by plane, the crew of Groupama 3 had no option but to wait patiently in Cape Town and attend the live draw for the World Cup football.

“All that is behind us today and all ten of us are delighted to be at sea again. We had to get free of the coast to find the wind, which has enabled us to retension the rig. We’ve done that and we’re now sailing under two reef mainsail and staysail in a 25 to 28 knot SE’ly making the equivalent boat speed” explains Fred Le Peutrec, who in the absence of Franck Cammas, has taken on responsibility for Groupama 3.

 Types of sailboat is  an intro category head for the blog.

We are talking about fast sailing here, so the best types of sailboat for us are multihull: catamaran and trimaran. And monohull: the high tech composites hull with huge sailplan.

For multihull, we can think at the 2 out of space ac33 boats: Alinghi5 and Bor. The new Banque Populaire and Also Groupama3. The orma 60, the Hydroptere down to the A-class catamaran.

For monohull we can think of supermaxi like Wild Oats, volvo 70, open 60, tp52, sportboat down to the moth anomaly.

And of course anything in between. 

Add go fast features like canting kell, wing rotating mast, huge asymetric spinnaker, square top mainsail, hard sail so you get hte picture of modern fast sailing.

Image by alexeiz2002 via Flickr

So let the blog see in time more in depth reviews of all these wonderful wind machines.

Christian

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