It's clear that you can sail all over San Francisco Bay. However, it is far less certain that there is enough space to hold a fair America's Cup anywhere. Therefore, the America's Cup Race Management Four possible course variants which should guarantee between 30 and 60 minutes sailing time. In all four variants, the race starts and finishes on a centreline. The difference is the number of legs (5, 6, 8 or 9) and the option of a gate in the centre of the course, which enables a finish after half a cross course instead of the normal finish at the leeward gate.
It was then also confirmed that the SL-33 catamarans used by Emirates Team New Zealand and the Italian Luna Rossa team as training boats, with their 10-metre hull length, were in fact compliant are. This decision was obviously very urgent, which is why the jury charged the Kiwis 5,000 euros...
And on with money matters: GreenComm, the Spanish syndicate that a few weeks ago announced a sponsorship deal with the Italian region of Lombardy that is rumoured to push the budget to around €54 million, fought the Decision of the jury The jury decided to fine the team 73,000 euros for the damage it caused to the boats of the two competitors Artemis and Aleph during the America's World Series in Plymoiuth in August. The jury disagreed and left the judgement as it was. And charged the Spaniards 6,500 euros for this wisdom.
And Cup defender Oracle Racing asked eight questions to find out from the jury whether and under what conditions they are allowed to do business with another team, similar to the way Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa do it. It is about the possibility of exchanging performance data and thus helping each other in the development of the boats without breaking the rules that allow each team to build "only" two of the monstrous AC-72 cats.
