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Most litigious of all America's Cups was the challenge by the Mercury Bay Boating Club in 1988, the 'big-boat' challenge of Michael Fay. Lacking time and money to match the challenger's 'vessel', San Diego YC's multihulled response in hindsight was rather elegant

Auckland lawyer Hamish Ross, general counsel to the Alinghi Challenge, says it is time for the America's Cup to move on

The America's Cup Arbitration Panel's decision penalising OneWorld one race point for having access to design information from participants in the last America's Cup raises wider issues about the America's Cup rules and their complexity. They were never intended to be so.

The terms of the America's Cup Deed of Gift, like all trust deeds, are supposed to be inviolate.......

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