Alinghi in Valencia. © 2010 Jose Delgado / Alinghi
Valencia, Spain (GenevaLunch) – Both defending champion Alinghi and US challenger BMW Oracle have arrived in the port of Valencia for final preparations before the series of three races that kicks off 8 February. The Alinghi team has been unloading the ship that transported containers, masts and other material from the Persian Gulf port of Ras Al Khaimah. The BMW Oracle trimaran, BOR 90, arrived in port a day earlier.
Alinghi is featured at a special exhibition at Nyon’s Musée du Léman which shows the extent to which Lake Geneva boating traditions and knowledge as well as Swiss high-tech technology in the form of composite materials and design from EPFL contributed to the making of the America’s Cup defender.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 7 January 2010.
Filed under: Sports
Tags: Alinghi, America's Cup race, BMW Oracle, Musee du Leman, Nyon, Valencia Spain
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January 7th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Multihulls in the America’s Cup…? That’s heresy!
January 9th, 2010 at 1:00 am
I wish both contenders would take their high tech monstrosities, and their equally monstrous bad sportsmanship, and sail off the edge of the earth, then let’s get back to multichallenger races in real sailboats again.