The Way Out
General Counsel of Team Alinghi and long time America’s Cup historian, Hamish Ross, here expresses a personal view of the background to the various occasions when America’s Cup players have considered legal action, and how the current players and sport now has an opportunity to reclaim the America’s Cup:
Sport ceases to be sport as soon as it enters the courthouse.
In a much quoted comment, the then Chief Justice of the State of New York eloquently wrote in 1990, when agreeing with the majority final judgment of the Mercury Bay dispute;
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All Around Madeira
On Sunday Nicolas Troussel and Christopher Pratt, sailing aboard FInanco, were the first Figaro Beneteau to round the turning point of Madeira in the doublehanded AG2R; as of 1700 UT Monday night they still clung to a lead of 15.9 miles over Thierry Chabagny and Corentin Douguet on Suzuki Åutomobiles.
After the rounding Monday night of NIVEA Athletes du Monde (Jean Galfione and GIlles Favennec), the 24 boats remaining in the race have now all rounded Madeira and are headed into the Atlantic looking in the swell for the lost trade winds. Eric Drouglazet and Christophe Bouvet on Luisina and Tangi Mahe and Claude Bertrac on Iroise Promotions have abandoned the race.
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Fleet kept on their toes.
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I learnt a great deal as per usual and found the Clansman to be a very stable and easy yacht to sail. Harry has two speed winches on his yacht which are considerably different to ours and are probably something that we should seriously …
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