A Cup With “barges”?

A Cup With “barges”?
A Cup With “barges”?

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The next cupper? Skutsjes from Holland

Alinghi also apparently did not miss the fact that interest in the Cup Theater is clearly fading. Perhaps that is the reason why the Swiss have the renowned New Zealand yacht designer Tom Schnackenberg perform with a comedic interlude.

The father of the Kiwi successes in the America's Cup gives an interview on the Alinghi homepage in which he talks about the challenge of BMW Oracle. He philosophizes with which ship the Americans will probably challenge: "Probably the expression" barge "hits the point pretty well."

In the challenge certificate presented by Ellison, the length is shown as 90 feet, the width in the waterline as 90 feet and the outermost width as 90 feet. “This suggests that the outermost sides of the boat go vertically down into the water. The depth of the hull is 3 feet and the draft is specifically mentioned; it's 20 feet when the keels are down."

While it is clear to all observers that the challenger YACHT described is actually supposed to be a multihull, Schnackenberg apparently wants to support the strategy of the new Alinghi lawyers. They cling to the expression "Kielyacht". This could only mean a monohull. And Schnackenberg explains what it should look like.

If he indicated with a smile or a wink in the video on the Alinghi page that this interpretation was not really meant seriously, then that would be very sympathetic. The Swiss would have made up for some of the damage to their image with a little gallows humor.

But the America's Cup icon plays the game to the end: “I talked a little bit about it with Rolf (Vrolijk, Ed.), Because the Dutch are known for designing“barges”, especially those with Leekiel, which are pretty good can sail well. Although he is equally outstanding and inventive, it became clear that Rolf has no experience in the design of "barges" and Dirk (Kramers, ed.) Does not have this either - that is of course a certain handicap for her.

BMW Oracle probably built such a boat for months, maybe years. "The challenge was submitted on July 11, 2007, but of course they thought of it much earlier and that gives them a great design advantage."

It is amazing that Schnackenberg takes part in this farce. In any case, the judgment of the American trial observer Friedman is devastating. The Alinghi Club SNG lost at Judge Cahn despite the "best lawyers" that Bertarelli believed they had.

“With the new consultants, the SNG not only loses, it is destroyed. And as if that weren't bad enough, the advisors also make them look like stupid boys.”The culmination of poor performance is the request to want to renegotiate. "That is both an early start and a missed start," says Friedman.

The cup community now hopes that Judge Cahn will speak clear words on Monday. Most of them now don't care what the outcome is. They are grateful for every bit of planning security.

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