Luna Rossa\u2019s skipper, Max Sirena, is beside himself. Under the cloak of the usual silence that preceds the battle, incredible things are happening in offices that overlook the bay of San Francisco. And the man most representative of the Italian expedition in the Coppa America has decided not to remain silent anymore. To name names and surnames. Here they are:\u00a0Paul Cayard, Russell Coutts, Artemis, Oracle: They are the jackals<\/strong>. The question is simple. On the eve of the America\u2019s Cup Cup, Luna Rossa and Team New Zealand \u2013 the only two credible challengers to the Cup held by the Americans Oracle \u2013 have succeeded in three years of work to make fly their catamarans (called foiling, the boat is five feet from the water \u201csupported\u201d only by the centerboard, and it is much faster).<\/em><\/p>\n Oracle and the swedes Artemis instead had judged it impossible to do from the beginning. So when they realized to be left behind, they began a frantic recovery.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Now Oracle is able to \u201cfly\u201d but not in a stable manner, needing to change the rudders in order to stabilize. The only problem is that you can not do that. To modify rudders as they want them, you have to change measurements rules. As if we were made to build a car with engine capacity 2000 and now a week before the race they want to run with a 2200. But the worst thing is that they want to pass this regulatory modification as a decision for reasons of safety. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>They are not for safety?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u201cNo there are not. They continue to use the term safety for changes that are only needed by them, and only for the performance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n They are Oracle and Artemis?<\/em><\/strong> The rule amending the rudders is contained in the notice of race issued by the Director Ian Murray and on the basis of which the U.S. Coast Guard has given the go ahead.<\/em><\/strong> The truth is that Oracle is in trouble \u2026<\/em><\/strong> The charge of profiteering is a serious charge .<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>This does not cancel that there is a safety issue.<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>Until someone ended up dead.<\/em><\/strong> Then came the notice of Murray.<\/em><\/strong> It will be discussed on the eight of July. If they rule against you, up to what point are you willing to go?<\/em><\/strong> from sailing anarchy: If anyone deserves pity in the massive \u2018ruddergate\u2019 controversy, it\u2019s Iain Murray. \u00a0We always suspected the salt-of-the-Earth boat builder and designer didn\u2019t have what it took to navigate the minefield of modern America\u2019s Cup politics, and sure enough (and regardless of the outcome of ETNZ and Luna Rossa\u2019s protests) he\u2019ll forever be … Continue reading MAX SAYS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632],"tags":[1702],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup-34-2","tag-max-serina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6222,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions\/6222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/dlo9dp2r69urx.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/patrizio-bertelli_416x416.jpg\" "\\"patrizio-bertelli_416x416\\"")
<\/a>\u201cProfiteering! That\u2019s what it is. \u00a0Nothing else. Sorry to say because sailing is my life, my world, my sport. But we cannot continue to pretend that this is the America\u2019s Cup of gentlemen, of fair play. It is not true at all. Oracle and Artemis are doing something illegal, shameful, and they are doing it by exploiting the death of \u2018Bart\u2019 Simpson, a sailor, a friend. And I am fed up of accepting everything in silence .\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cWell, there are four teams. We and Team New Zealand protested\u2026. \u201c<\/em>
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\n\u201d It \u2018s clear that no one has evidence that behind this is the hand of Oracle. But Murray has no authority to change the rules of tonnage. For those it takes unanimity. Which there is not. \u201c<\/em>
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\n\u201cI am sure that in the end they will be very competitive. Now yes, they are a little back.\u201d<\/em>
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\n\u201cI know, I\u2019m sorry. But it is so. They tell us that we are unsporting, a myth of sailing, Iain Percy (skipper of Artemis) has told that and it hurt me a lot. Actually it is them who are exploiting the incident of Artemis (the one in which on May 9 the sailor champion Olympic Andrew \u201cBart\u201d Simpson lost his life, ed) to obtain advantages in water. By the way, Simpson died because he was unlucky, not because the class is wrong. The catamaran rolled over, anything can happen and will happen again. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cAnd you say it to me? Of course it exists. I have been saying that since long before the accident. It was more than a year that I insisted with Murrey, with Coutts, Paul Cayard and they laughed in my face. Reduce wind limits \u2013 I said \u2013 enhance helmets, oxygen tanks, put straps on the hulls to held to in the event of capsize, prohibit the guest on board. They insisted, deaf. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThat, again, it was an accident. Anyway, it was right to intervene. They proposed 37 points to improve security: 35 were shared, while two were only needed to help Oracle and Artemis to regain lost ground . With New Zealand we have proposed: let\u2019s pass now the 35 and we think about the other two. Cayard said, no, all or nothing. So I threatened to publish the response in the media. So you could tell who was trying to work for the safety and who for themselves. And we managed to have the 35 points passed. \u201c<\/em>
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\n\u201cAgainst which we did protest.\u201d<\/em>
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\n\u201cWe may refuse to get in the water. It is a decision which may be taken only with the consent of Patrizio Bertelli, of course. But it is a matter of principle. Coppa America is a great game but also in games there are values to be respected.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"