MarkMT 68 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Didn't see this one coming... https://mailchi.mp/rmyc/malta-altus-challenge-accepted-as-challenger-for-36th-americas-cup The Commodore and flag officers of the Royal Malta Yacht Club are pleased to announce that the RMYC will be represented by a team challenging for the 36thAmericas Cup. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, as defender trustee of the Cup has formally accepted the challenge that the RMYC has made on behalf of team Malta Altus Challenge... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Priscilla II 377 Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 RNZYS would be advised to get on the Google re Pasquale Cataldi and Malta Altus. Property developer of not much yet. http://www.altusfirenze.com/ Claims to have owned Formula E Team? Got some spare loot to invest.http://bitbull.fund/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ale-p-cataldi-8a050140/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarkMT 68 Posted December 12, 2018 Author Share Posted December 12, 2018 Second US team confirmed... https://twitter.com/LBYCConCup/status/1072886535995834369 https://www.lbyc.org/default.aspx?p=.NET_ArticleView&qfilter=&tview=0&itemID=50092&chgs=&ssid= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AJ Oliver 154 Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Nice to have the Knights Templar back in the game . . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarkMT 68 Posted February 7, 2019 Author Share Posted February 7, 2019 Interesting decision by the arbitration panel about the nationality rule... anyone who holds a passport by the time the challenger series starts qualifies. So Malta (in general anyone) is free to recruit whoever they want, as long as they can get their government to play along... https://www.sail-world.com/news/214421 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 343 Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 That’s pretty interesting. Seems against the intent of the rule, but maybe they should have worded it better? Or maybe it was designed that way? So challenges from big countries with legit governments had to do it the hard way and small or corrupt countries, who don’t tend to be amongst the best challengers anyway, can sneak in this way? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Priscilla II 377 Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wal 27 Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Excellent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 197 Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 All sailing crew must be "nationals" of the country. But there is no definition of "nationals". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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