Tribord Amure par Matthieu

Seis dit :

Oui. Les Australiens on demandé de pouvoir utiliser les voiles americaines.
Mutual Consent.

Alinghi a rejetté les avertissements, et aprés, même le fait de devoir faire voiles suises.
Et continuer à insister sur les regles du Default Match. Et refusé l’accord mutuel à Singapour.

Petite difference…

Greg nous a rapellé cette interview de Valencia Sailing à Ehman en juillet.
Toutes les questions actuelles sont averties, une autre fois à Alinghi, en juillet.
Ici un extrait:

The other thing about the boat that baffles the mind is that, by all records, Alinghi are showing again reckless disregard for what we call the constructed-in-country rule, or CIC. The Deed of Gift says that the vessel shall be constructed in the country of the club it represents.

The idea that you can build sails or other custom pieces in other countries flies completely in the face of the Deed. The idea that you can take bits and pieces from various places, including Switzerland, and then assemble them in another country again flies completely in the face of the Deed.

If this is what Alinghi is attempting to do, and there are many indications from what we hear within the industry that that’s not only what they attempt to do but what they are doing, this again will create another furor, another huge dispute because it flies again totally in the face of the Deed.

We probably won’t know for sure until they show up on the day of the first race what they have, what yacht they are using because they are not required to tell us, although they will have to get it measured at some point they way we will.

Valencia Sailing: Let’s be more specific on that point. Do you claim that Alinghi’s yacht has not been entirely constructed in Switzerland?

Tom Ehman: No, I don’t claim that. I draw the attention, your attention, to what we call the CIC rule, constructed-in-country. It is a long-standing well-understood rule that can only be modified by mutual consent which started to happen in the late 1970′s. There was mutual consent and last time it was the most liberal, loosest interpretation, again by mutual consent, where you basically had to build just the hull in your country.

Still, the rule goes beyond that. The Deed is quite clear that the vessel, and that means the mast, the sails, the entire vessel and any of the custom bits have to be built in the country of the club it represents. There are indications within the marine industry, and as you know it’s a small world and there are only so many sailmakers, so many winch makers and so many hydraulic pump manufacturers and these people all talk.

We, BMW Oracle, have taken a very straight stance from day one on CIC, constructed-in-country, and will continue to do so and if SNG/Alinghi do not, and there are indications they are not building all of the major parts in Switzerland, then there is going to be another problem.

They just can’t disregard the Deed of Gift time, after time, after time and expect not to have any consequences. They found out that when we won 6-0 in the Court of Appeals.

I honestly hope there won’t be any further litigation. As you know, we will go back to mediation, I have done business with Lucien Masmejean, I respect him and I hope we cut an agreement as we did in the last Cup. Basically, Lucien and I wrote the 32nd America’s Cup protocol after a long negotiation and we can avoid court, we should avoid court this time and the only way to do it is sit down and talk turkey on all these topics just like we did in 1988. There was no contention over the rules back then and all of that blatter by their lawyers last Tuesday was just that. They tried to compare apples and oranges.

lionfish dit :

dans l’ultimatum de BOR, il y a ceci:

We hereby renew our commitment to Draft 8 of the Singapore Agreement, but this offer ends at 1900 CET tomorrow, Monday, January 17, 2010.

Comment voulez-vous répondre à un ultimatum le lundi 17 janvier 2010 ????? Personne sur cette terre aurait eu les moyens de le faire….mdr