Sail No. 90 Allocated

[Updated 13:55 Thursday -- According to German media reports, United Internet Team Germany have now announced they were allocated sail no. 89, and had hoped to get that number in commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.]


This morning the Technical Director reported that ACC sail no. 90 has now been allocated. Click here for our previous post and summary (when 89 was allotted) concerning this not-so-weighty issue, but one that gets a lot of attention in the media nonetheless.

As with 87 and 89, we are not aware that the team to which 90 has been allocated has made it public. By agreement with the teams, the TD only announces that a number has been allocated (after the first skin is layed up in or on the tool), not the name of the team. This is left to the respective teams to announce as and when they choose.

Question now comes to mind -- will we get to 100 during AC 32? By our count (based on the various media statements), there is at least one more number to be allocated in the "first round" of new ACC yachts being built for AC 32. That would bring us to 91.

Will nine more "new" yachts be built for this Cup? How many of the 12 teams will build two yachts? Any team(s) that will not build any new yachts? At this point, the editor's guess is that we will get to an even 100. Anyone for a pool?

By the way, anyone know how many 12's were built during 1958-87 while it was the AC Class? More than 90? A quick guess-timate says no, making the ACC the largest AC Class in the history of the event? Who would have thought when we were first putting this class rule down on paper back in 1988-89.

Regardless, a raft a new boats are coming online not too far down the highway, and some of them will be making their debut in Act 10 -- now just around the corner.