This video is a little longer than I usually post – but it’s awesome. Enjoy.

Some video from the A-cat event in Florida a couple of weeks ago…nice.

A-Cats at Ft Myers from Fly Rod on Vimeo.

Up this week?  A video shot by one of our good friends Brian Karr with www.adventureonline.tv as he filmed David Ingram leaving his wife to fend for herself on his Nacra F18 while he saves his hat.  We also get to see a really great angle of Scott and Dior Huble drive their Hobie Tiger into the deep.

The dust around the America’s Cup litigation, stirred by the recent judgement from the New York Courts in favor of the American / GGYC team, is starting to settle enough to see some options in the near future.  One of a few things are going to happen; 1) GGYC and SNG negotiate an agreeable multiple challenger series in the near future 2) GGYC and SNG act like their negotiating an agreeable multiple challenger series but only to a means for delay (on the part of SNG) and on some minor irreconcilable difference we end up in a one on one DoG fight or 3) SNG refuses to come to the table and we immediately start court proceedings to get SNG to provide the information needed for a race.

Which one will happen?  I think SNG is strapped for cash and might actually be in favor of a cost controled multiple challenger event.  However, it’s hard to tell how much of the chest pounding proclomations were all for show, or how much was heart-felt leading up to the final court decision.   I think it all boils down to whether or not SNG believes that they can pull off a competitive boat to meet GGYC.  They’ve already seen a vision of their monster – though nobody has actually made the claim that this is the official challenge yacht of GGYC.

Both parties have now made a pretty vanilla statements – GGYC taking the high road stating simply that they are talking but will not be public about any of the talks in the hopes of reaching a quick “conclusion”.  I don’t like picking at words, but using “conclusion” instead of something like “agreement” probably speaks volumes.

BMW / Oracle / GGYC wins the appeal and are now the official challenger of record! More details and analysis soon.  The ruling by the judges was a unanimous 6-0 – that’s solid.

Technique: 10

Speed: 6

Flare: 8

Bonus: +1pnt  for immediate turtle

Score: 9.0