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An undignified response from ACM today, after the Golden Gate Yacht Club’s shot across their bows yesterday. Sometimes it really is better to say nothing.

Here’s one to start with. Michel Bonnefous claims the protocol is not “an attempt to control everything”, although we’ve been offered no evidence to the contrary.

Interesting that there is no mention of the yacht club of convenience, Club Náutico Español de Vela (CNEV), in ACM’s response, despite the CNEV’s questionable status as a bone fide yacht club being one of the central tenets of the Americans’ objections. You would have thought ACM might have taken this opportunity to leap to the Challenger of Record’s defence. Because they’re going to have to do that when they go to the New York Supreme Court. I hope BMW Oracle’s lawyers have forgotten about that Optimist… Read the rest