9:13 AM Sat 27 Mar 2010 GMT
Paul Cayard, America's Cup sailor and President of the World Sailing Team Association (WSTA), spoke to a standing-room-only crowd Wednesday night at Ullman Sails in Costa Mesa, CA, talking about his sailing career and his recent past at the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland.
In particular he provided some details under consideration for the path to the next America's Cup and the new America's Cup class design. Here's a sample of what Cayard had to say about the possible future of the America's Cup:
'Larry Ellison is a founding member of the WSTA and believes in the concept. I've had some meetings, and what I can say is [BMWOR] see the Louis Vuitton Trophy and the events being an integral part of the next America's Cup. What that means exactly is yet to be determined, of course, but it might be something like this....
'We might race the Version Five boats for a couple more years, say, through 2011. Then, in looking at bringing a new class of boat online, what could be clever is to design that rule this year and build four identical boats of the new rule and put them on the circuit, to allow the teams to experience these boats before they actually have to design their own, so that there's some background and some experience before we have to go out and spend, collectively, 50 or 100 million Euros on a fleet of boats.
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by Diane Swintal for CupInfo
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