ValenciaSailing- BMW Oracle start training in Valencia on Extreme 40's

by ValenciaSailing.com on 7 Apr 2009
As the portents point increasingly towards a Deed of Gift Match, for the 33rd America's Cup in multihulls. ValenciaSailing.com report on the latest developments in Valencia, likely venue for the DoG Match:

Unless Alinghi and BMW Oracle reach an agreement towards the celebration of a multi-challenger conventional America's Cup, one could say that the starting gun of the 33rd America's Cup was fired early this afternoon in Valencia.

Obviously, the Challenger of Record have been training since many months on their monster 90ft trimaran but there was always a possibility, no matter how small, that the giant multihull could become obsolete and useless, in case of a negative outcome in the court case, and turn it into what could be the most expensive and high-tech hospitality yacht.

As we previewed during last week, BMW Oracle started earlier today their training on the Extreme 40 yachts, together with the French teams Groupama and Team Gitana. The Americans are using two yachts, one helmed by James Spithill, and a second one helmed by Austrian skipper Roman Hagara

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