IACC-City
is about to success (05/17/03) (source
: IACC-City.it)
Set up in order to promote sailing and make
it a more popular sport, beyond any conventions, Comitato
Promotore IACC-City is getting ready for the great
challenge to America's Cup 2007.
Thanks to the partnership with the lawyer Giorgio
Rubini, MediaSport&Arts chairman and Century Group
managing director, it has been possible to float an
unprecedented and remarkable project in the international
sports environment.
"Progetto Europa" ("European Project"), by which the
Old Continent presents its challenge to the XXXII
America's Cup, has been developed from the meeting
of matured experience and relationships with high
level sponsors.
In the name of the will of change shown by the present
Defender in the Protocol governing the thirty second
America's Cup, IACC-City aims to be not only one of
the most revolutionary challengers, but also a forerunner
and a "messenger" of the European Community spirit,
first in trusting and promoting the European Community
presence in the sailing world.
By now this challenge acquires new energy and wider
horizons : the same principle of popular partecipation
and involvement to support a European challenge aimed
at all those fans of the oldest world sports competition.
End
of the dream for the third Italian Team (02/24/02) (source
: IACC-City
Challenge)
The IACC-City
Challenge hopes to be a challenger for the 2006 America's
Cup. In a traditional way, Enrico De Marchi, President
of the third Italian projet, throws in sponge at a
few days of the limiting date of deposit of the inscriptions
(fixed at 1 March 2001).
Prior to the events of September 11th in New York
and Washington, sponsorship hunting was already difficult
as fears of recession grew, but the terrorist attacks
have made it much harder. Nevertheless, Enrico De
Marchi said his main problem is not raising funds
but to have a boat.
On October 8th, the Team took the first step toward
a new America's Cup challenge as Laurent Esquier,
the Operation Manager of Prada Challenge, said the
Team agrees to leased a vessel from their successful
2000 Louis Vuitton Cup campaign, ITA-48, the second
cup-winning silver boat.
Virtuous circle. The investors return and, step by
step, the project of third Italian Syndicate is concretized.
The first names circulate and, in particular, the
young Italian match-racer Nicola Celon.
At the end of December, Prada breaks the dream. ITA-48
is not available any more. The IACC-City board have
decided not to go further without the boat and have
today announced that they will cease operations.
Ond@nomala at the
Nautex - Vela Show 2002 (02/22/02) (source
: IACC-City
Challenge)
IACC-City
Challenge, the third Italian potential challenger,
will be at the Nautex - Vela Show which will be officially
inaugurated in Rimini (Italy) tomorrow, Saturday 23
February 2002.
Nicola Celon and the Ond@nomala team will make a point
of the situation during a press conference on February
24th (15pm).
On the first day of March 2002 the last deadline for
syndicates wishing to challenge the Royal New Zealand
Yacht Squadron for the America's Cup expires.
To be a challenger a yacht club has to send a bank
draft or letter of credit to the New Zealanders for
US$ 300.000 along with a certain number of other administrative
details.
A paragraph published
today by the Gazzetta dello Sport allows to believe
that the third Italian challenge is emerging.
Indeed, the negotiations with Prada seems well-engaged
and it would be possible that Valleverde, an Italian
fashion shoes company located in Coriano (Rimini),
become their sponsor.
Its last official outing
was in mid-december 99, just under 2 years ago Luna
Rossa II (ITA48), was wrapping up the third round
robin of the LVC, with an impressive record : 7 wins,
2 losses (AmericaOne and Idaten). After that,
ITA-48 has served as a training boat, but has not
raced again. Prada Challenge had preferred ITA 45
for the remainder of the cup.
Prada Challenge also has the two former Young Americas,
ITA-48 is no longer needed, not even as a sparring
partner for the training sessions on the Hauraki Gulf,
and she was now looking forward to a happy retirement.
But the boat could have a second chance as she returned
to the public eye at the centre of high profile negotiations.
Ond@nomala (IACC-City Challenge), which is aspiring
to be the third Italian Team for the next America's
Cup has asked Prada to sell that Luna Rossa to sail
in the next Competition and it even seems (mostly
speculation as official sources are keeping quiet)
that a preliminary agreement is already in place for
the details of the transaction which could be concluded
in the next few days.
Being able to count on a boat like Luna Rossa II,
it is clear that the dream of five insomniacs who
were chatting on a web site while watching Luna Rossa
race, is very close to becoming reality. Nicola Celon,
who seems to have been selected as helmsman, would
find himself suddenly in a syndicate which does not
sail in money, but rather in the legend which was
Luna Rossa, keeping Italy on the edge of its seat
for almost 6 months.
It is clear that from these negotiations to it s debut
as 11th challenger is a long leap. Meanwhile, the
sale needs to be formalised, then regulations need
to be complied with, Ond@nomala need to find all its
funding and every detail needs to be agreed with the
yacht club which will challenge the Royal Yacht Squadron
in Auckland.
Alongside the syndicate, which is probably linked
to the Circolo Velico di Rimini, it is easy to imagine
dozens (or hundreds) of shipowners following an old
dream : The AC challenge for 100 dollars. They will
never find enough enthusiasts to reach the requisite
18-20 billion Lire (9 €M), but for the ones that
have paid the fee of 200000 lires (100 $), or who
will do so in the near future the mouthwatering prospect
of placing their signature on the hull and owning
a piece of Luna Rossa is coming closer to reality.
-
A third italian Challenge ?
- Part 2 (05/10/01) (source
: forums.delphi)
RNZYS Commodore Peter
Taylor was interviewed today and said that they were
expecting a third (!!!) challenge from Italy within
the next few days/weeks and that it would be a corporate
challenge rather than from a new B (the same as "Italia
Auckland Con Cento dollari" ["Italy to Auckland with
a Hundred Dollars"] detailed above ?) .
A
third italian Challenge ? - Part 1 (03/27/01) (source
: IACC-City.it)
It has been reported
today that a "popular" Italian Challenge
is now emerging. The challenging club could be Club
Nautico di Rimini, however no further details have
been announced, or who the financier of syndicate
will be.
