Well, it would be nice to dream that this means we'll get to see those 90-foot cats (or tris), but most likely, they'll sit down and come up with something with one hull.
Nah, not going to happen. Although Alinghi talked a big game the past week threatening that they wouldn't appeal and would battle it out on multis, they REALLY softened up today saying they look forward negotiating with Oracle to put together a good event...OOOORrrrrr that's some ploy to give them more development time for a multi and keep Oracle of center...hmmmm....either side could break negotiations down to garbage and immediately fall back into a disagreeable contest as specified in the deed....this could be a really expensive game of cat and mouse.
I think Oracle's intent is to have the event on the same type of boats as last time in '09 in Valencia and avoid the delays that would result from an entirely new platform.
Very rational, but did you know that someone built a 66ft boat with the exact proportions of the new 90ft IACC monohull and that Alinghi's afterguard is sailing the boat?
After this "coincidence", it is conceivable that Oracle could prefer a multihull, so that all teams start from scratch, instead of giving one year of scale modeling and development advantage to Alinghi.
I wonder if Oracle already knew about the "model" when they started legal action?
