Lot of bitch-slapping by mail going on...Alinghi saying "send us your boat certificate or else" after Oracle launched their tri (one would assume that it's their AC trimaran - but they have time, and probably will, build a second one if we end up on multis...so technically this may not be an AC trimaran). Oracle replying "your appeal was temporarily upheld by the courts, we're not the official challenger at this time so we have no requirement to give you bupkis" (I'm paraphrasing loosely) :-)

As far as getting into a DoG match, we're in a holding mode while we wait for the last appeal hearing in New York (figured to take place in January '09). HOWEVER, word has it that Bertarelli was out on the left coast last week and may have sat down with Ellison to "talk" face to face for the first time in quite a while. I haven't been online to see if anything actually took place. There has been some banter about going back to a monohull multi-team challenge...there's no telling at this point...but I don't think you'll see Ellison back down from keeping Alinghi from having such a one-sided rule set....probably won't see Bertarelli waver much either.