Team Seacats

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.