(nytimes) They have been dueling without boats and without salt water in their
faces for nearly three years. Instead of the customary helmsmen and
bowmen, the combatants in the 33rd America’s Cup have been the lawyers and public-relations specialists pushing the opposing agendas of the team owners Larry Ellison of BMW Oracle Racing and Alinghi’s Ernesto Bertarelli, who said this week that he would forfeit the Cup if he lost his latest court battle.  Source

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• Americas Cup squabbles go to the wire

     (soundings) The battle for the 33rd America’s Cup is playing out in court again instead of on the race course, where the contest between BMW Oracle Racing’s 90-foot trimaran and Alinghi’s 90-foot catamaran surely would be a lot more exciting.  Source

• San Diego calls, 34 Regatta Host

     (ESPN) Mayor Jerry Sanders made a personal pitch Sunday to software mogul Larry Ellison to hold the 34th America’s Cup in San Diego. Source

• America Cup rules again spat led to court

     (AP)  America’s Cup challenger BMW Oracle Racing went back to a New York court on Wednesday in an attempt to stop what it calls the unfair manipulation of the rules by defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland.  Source

• RI could be back in the America s Cup races will be

     (projo) The spectacle of America’s Cup yachts flying anew across Rhode Island Sound became more than a shot in the dark after software billionaire Larry Ellison — who apparently bought Astors’ Beechwood Mansion on Bellevue Avenue recently — won the 33rd America’s Cup challenge on Sunday in Valencia, Spain. 

• America s Cup turns into yard Courthouse

     (AP) The most radical, contentious America’s Cup ever is revving up on both coasts.  In San Diego, American challenger BMW Oracle Racing rolled its monster trimaran out of the boatshed, freshly modified to take on an auto engine — a BMW model, of course — to be used to trim its giant sails. 

• Louis Vuitton launches new circuit

     (AP)  A new world circuit of America’s Cup-class yacht racing will start in November, making stops in New Zealand and Italy and featuring 10 teams.  Eight entries, including Emirates Team New Zealand and American syndicate BMW Oracle, have already been confirmed. Organizers said Tuesday the two others will be announced in days.  Source

• Alinghi prepares for BMW Oracle

     (ESPN) Alinghi is ahead of schedule in mastering its massive catamaran built to defend the America’s Cup.The two-time defending Cup champion is undergoing sea trials aboard the 90-foot Alinghi 5 off Italy’s Mediterranean coast, preparing for the showdown against U.S. rival BMW Oracle Racing in February in the Persian Gulf.  Source

• America s Cup 33 Race 1 – BMW Oracle wins – The wing is king

     (sail-world) After more than 30 months of fighting in the courts, this Deed of Gift America’s Cup series at last turned from being a legal battle to a battle on the water off Spain’s Valencia coast between the defender Ernesto Bertarelli’s gossamer spider catamaran Alinghi and Larry Ellison’s BMW

• Alinghi sails u0026quot , claims Oracle skipper

     Alinghi(AFP)  The skipper of Oracle claimed Sunday that Swiss defender Alinghi is using “illegal” sails on its catamaran that is to face the US challenger in next month’s America’s Cup duel. New Zealander Russell Coutts said Oracle is prepared to give Alinghi “several weeks” to change the sails if the

• Alinghi sails u0026quot , claims Oracle skipper

     Alinghi(AFP)  The skipper of Oracle claimed Sunday that Swiss defender Alinghi is using “illegal” sails on its catamaran that is to face the US challenger in next month’s America’s Cup duel. New Zealander Russell Coutts said Oracle is prepared to give Alinghi “several weeks” to change the sails if the

• New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup (NYYC)

     (sail-world)  In a year that marks its 165th anniversary, the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) is organizing the Invitational Cup, a highly anticipated fleet racing regatta to take place in Newport, R.I. from September 15-19, 2009. ‘This event is, in fact, the world championship for the main yacht clubs of the world,’ said Bruno Troublé,

• America s Cup set for best-of-seven series

     (AP) -The America’s Cup duel between Alinghi and BMW Oracle is headed for a best-of-seven series despite unpredictable weather conditions threatening the schedule.  Source

• UAE hosts 33rd America \ u0026 # 39; s Cup Yacht Race

     (AP)  The duel between Alinghi and US challengers Oracle for the next America’s Cup will take place in the United Arab Emirates at Ras al-Khaimah in February, the Swiss defending champions said Wednesday.  READ MORE

• America s Cup to return to its original format

     (AFP)  The America’s Cup is poised to return to its traditional multiple challenger format after US side Oracle won the 33rd edition of sailing’s oldest and most prestigious trophy held in Spain.  Source

• GGYC accuses America snow-blindness \ u0026quot about Match

     (sailworld) Tonight GGYC filed its response to Société Nautique de Genève’s (SNG) submissions to the New York Supreme Court of last week. There are two important questions before the Court: • In an America’s Cup ‘Deed of Gift match,’ must the sails of competitors’ yachts be constructed in the