Team Seacats

I’m beginning to think that we may end up in court again before any boats hit the water. Alinghi has gone silent and is not talking to BMW-Oracle. There’s a lot of talk about having a DoG match in multihulls. I never did understand why so many teams, particularly New Zealand, seemed so silent about the new protocol. Turns out that Bertarelli had cut deals with at least the New Zealand camp that Team New Zealand would receive about $24 Million U.S. if the cup was postponed to 2010 and about $37 Million U.S. if it was postponed to 2011. Reference Article HERE. Had they bought off the other challengers as well? Wow, that’s dirty.