SailJuice Blog

BMW Oracle Racing has won its appeal in New York, and once again the CNEV yacht club in Spain has been cast into outer darkness. A good day for Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts, a bad day for Alinghi and Ernesto Bertarelli, and a bad day for the other challengers waiting in the wings. Here’s the crucial bit:

“Since CNEV has failed to show that at the time it submitted its Notice of
Challenge it was a ‘club fulfilling all the conditions required by’ the Deed
of Gift, it does not qualify as the Challenger of Record for the 33rd
America’s Cup competition and Supreme Court was correct in declaring GGYC to
be the valid Challenger of Record. It has been posited that the right to act
as trustee of the

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