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Nae BMW Oracle in the cup yet... Photo : ETNZ

A recent letter has been sent to BMW Oracle from all of the teams preparing to compete for the 33rd Americas Cup. This encourages the team, who represent the Golden Gate Sueing & Yachting Club, to drop their law suit against Alinghi. Maybe they could come and compete for the cup instead of dicking about with big multihulls (very impressive though…).

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To see the letter click here(PDF)

Cup Boats, buy one get one free…

33rd AC looking up Photo : ©Ivo.Rovira/Alinghi

The latest news from todays AC meeting in Geneva is that there will be no crazy AC90 boats. Just a version 5.0 of the recent boats. Also there will be a one boat campaign to keep the costs down and encourage further entries. The event is expected to take place in 2010. Read the full story here…

2008 Melges 24 North American Championship

Race 5. Action from the first windward mark

Race 5. The second windward mark

Check the latest results here…

Thanks to Mr Clean of Blocsail

Lets face it… You would!

could do with that on my boat…

Judging by the photo, Sam Davies looks well prepared for the upcoming Vendee Globe singlehanded race around the world. If you care, read more about her race preperations by following the link: http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=45072

If not, just enjoy some yotty totty action…

http://www.samdavies.com/

Dave Ullman leads after three thrilling races in Annapolis

Bloody good snap from Photo © Paul Todd / www.outsideimages.co.nz check that dude out

At Marine Blast we like these like boat things (Melges24’s)

After a spectacular day of racing in Annapolis at the 2008 Melges 24 North American Championship, it is 2007 World Champion Dave Ullman on Pegasus 505 who tops the leader board by three points from another previous world champ, Flavio Favini on SUI 521 Blu Moon. The final podium position at this stage is taken by local hero Terry Hutchinson on USA 751 Quantum Racing. In the Corinthian division it is Othmar Mueller von Blumencron on USA 679 Gannet who leads from David Dabney on USA 626 Wireless and Alex Shafer on USA 744 Sweaty Betty.

More America’s Cup Court Pish! Might get some sailing done soon!

It looks like New Zeland has stepped one step closer to winning back the Big Jug that they miss-placed at some point which now seems a while ago now? Anyway whats happened is that they have dropped the law suit against them for something that probably they can still only remember what it was about, I know that I lost track of this a long while ago and thought that I would just wait till they started sailing again. So looks like the shit is now getting thinner (un-like me) anyway check it out on their site at www.alinghi.com

Ericsson 4 hauling ass

At 03:55 GMT, Ericsson 4 had sailed 565 miles over the past day, to break the record. But in the hours since, Grael and his crew have kept pushing and have been adding to the total. At 07:10 GMT, the number was up to 585 miles. It had grown to 589 by 07:55 and soon after topped out at 590.5.

Puff the magic dragon!

shit thats high...

Impressive shot from the top of Green Dragons stick. Going like fuck…

See more at: http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=607