NEW SPEED RECORD
* The World Sailing Speed Record (WSSR) Council announced the ratification
of a new world record by Francis Joyon (FRA) onboard the 98-foot trimaran
"IDEC". Joyon blistered the singlehanded Cross Channel Record from Cowes to
Dinard on Sunday August 18th, averaging 21.6 knots along the 138-mile
course. His time of 6 hours, 23 minutes, and 36 seconds beat the previous
record set in July 2006 by Thomas Coville (FRA) and his 60-foot trimaran
“Sodebo" by 1:52:11. -- John Reed, Secretary to the WSSR Council
http://www.sailspeedrecords.com/news.html
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TP 52 Action
* Portimao, Algarve, Portugal (August 22, 2007) -- A fifth from a tricky
first race followed by their third victory from five starts ensures that
Peter de Ridder and his Valle Romano Mean Machine crew extend their overall
lead at the Breitling MedCup TP52's Circuit's Portugal Trophy off Portimao
to ten points. The series' fourth race started after a long wait for a sea
breeze to develop, with race tactics balancing the benefit of more breeze on
the left side of the course against the favoured wind shift to the right.
These conflicting breezes delayed the fifth race, which finally started at
1720hrs with conditions similar to Tuesday’s brisk NW'ly. -- Daily report:
http://2007.medcup.org/news/?langPost=EN&id=2881
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AMERICA`S CUP NEWS :- (Battle of the Mouthpieces )
SUPREME COURT GRANTS ORDER
New York, NY (August 22, 2007) – The Supreme Court of the State of New York
today granted an order sought by the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) requiring
the Société Nautique de Genève (SNG) to promptly answer a request to speed
up the legal process for resolving its proposed new rules for defending the
next America’s Cup. The San Francisco club sought the Court ruling alleging
SNG is in serious breach of its fiduciary duty under the Deed of Gift that
governs the Cup. It says SNG has accepted an invalid challenge from a sham
yacht club, and is seeking to impose an unprecedented one-sided set of rules
that hugely favor the defender to the detriment of all other competitors.
“We are very pleased with this ruling by the Court, because we believe the
Cup will be irrevocably damaged if we don’t get SNG’s Protocol changed,” Tom
Ehman, Head of External Affairs for BMW ORACLE Racing, the US club’s team,
said. “The new Protocol would give SNG’s team, Alinghi, radical new powers
to control nearly all aspects of the event that are still unsupported by any
explanation from SNG as to why they are needed,” he said.
Ehman said the syndicate whose challenge had been accepted by SNG, the Club
Náutico Español de Vela (CNEV), was a shell organisation that had been
formed only days prior to issuing a challenge and did not comply with the
terms specified by the Deed of Gift. “We would still prefer to negotiate a
solution outside the court, but we see SNG as violating its responsibilities
as Trustee, and we are fully prepared to go the legal distance if needed to
stop the America’s Cup being subverted into a hopelessly one-sided event,”
he said. -- Read on:
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/07/0822