CC Meetings Underway

The Notice of Race working party is meeting this afternoon in Valencia in advance of the full Challenger Commission meetings tomorrow and Wednesday.

This task force has been working for some months on a draft of the NOR for the Louis Vuitton Cup, and the CC hopes to have one finalized before the start of Act 10 in May -- a full 10 months before the start of the LVC in April next year. If achieved, this will be welcomed by all Challengers as it gives reasonable certainty on how the series will be run; and, to our memory, it will be some kind of a record for early completion of this seminal document.



Clockwise from foreground left, Dawn Riley and George Clyde (K-Challenge); Jordi Lamarca (Desafio Espanol); Luis Saenz, Bruno Finzi and Marco Mercuriali (Luna Rossa); Dyer Jones (Regatta Director, ACM); Wolf Dietz (United Internet Team Germany); Jim Farmer (Emirates Team New Zealand); Alessandra Pandarese and Cameron Dunn (Mascalzone Latino Capitalia Team); and Michael ten Bokum (CC Assistant). Not pictured, working party chairman Tom Ehman (BMW ORACLE Racing).