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Well-known PR Group Singer Comes In To Assist Americas Cup
SAN FRANCISCO--The 2013 America’s Cup, which has faced considerable media scrutiny of its hosting plans, has called in Singer Associates to provide PR counsel.
Singer began working on the brief earlier this month, amid concerns that the yacht race would be too expensive for San Francisco to host. A pared-down approach, which dropped a $111m waterfront redevelopment proposal, was eventually approved by the city yesterday.
Singer will retain its AOR status on the assignment, providing communications services for both the America’s Cup and the America’s Cup World Series, which is now underway in Italy, and includes upcoming races in Italy and Rhode Island. The brief also covers the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger race in 2013. Read more »
America's Cup: Racing to the Future
There is no clause covering air rights in the rules of ocean racing, but they may have to rewrite the rule book.
If the America’s Cup has not yet seen one yacht deliberately fly a hull over another, that’s only because until recently America’s Cup racers were monohull yachts loaded down with lead ballast. That all changed when Larry Ellison and Swiss pharmaceuticals heir Ernesto Bertarelli fought out the last America’s Cup in giant multihulls off the coast of Valencia, Spain in February 2010. Ellison won that match, 2–0, and the Cup—the boats—will never be the same. Read more »
America’s Cup gets big legal boost from Obama
President Barack Obama has handed America’s Cup planners a big win.
The president signed into law the America’s Cup Act of 2011, a piece of legislation waiving certain laws that prohibit foreign vessels from operating in American waters.
The law was needed, according to backer U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, because portions of the Jones Act and the Passenger Vessel Services Act would interfere with the America’s Cup competition. Those pieces of law dictate what kind of boats can transfer people and goods along American shores. Read more »
America’s Cup CEO is out amid management shakeup
The America’s Cup has undergone a shakeup of top management.
Craig Thompson, CEO of the America’s Cup business arm, has left the organization.
Thompson’s job will be taken over by Richard Worth, chairman of the America’s Cup Event Authority, which oversees the commercial side of the 34th America’s Cup to be held in San Francisco in 2013. Read more »
America's Cup sets sail for San Diego
Detractors may argue that watching sailboats race is about as exciting as watching grass grow, but San Diego - famous for its salubrious climate and consistent breezes - plans to prove them wrong during the America's Cup World Series this month. Read more »
