12:22 PM Wed 19 May 2010 GMT
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'Artist's impression of an ACC V 5.0 yacht (left) compared to an AC33 yacht at similar scale, to a box rule, produced prior to the 33rd America's Cup. The monohull under consideration was for 34 America’’s Cup is considerably longer.'
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The Names of the America's Cup design world gathered around a table in the BMW Oracle Racing headquarters, in Valencia, earlier this week to consider options for a yacht for the 34th America's Cup. Such meetings are not new. Alinghi and the then Defender, Societe Nautique de Geneve held several in their tenure, working down the options for a monohull that could be used in a multi challenger, mutual consent event for the 33rd America's Cup. The decision of the New York Court of Appeal created an end point to that process, confirmed when SNG decided that they would take
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by Richard Gladwell
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