The "Dársena Interior", the section of the port that will serve as home base for the Cup, will not be ready before the end of the year or the beginning of 2005.

For that reason, a first speed race is now on to discover provisional solutions that allowed first training in Valencia imposed by a competing environment. Here as elsewhere, Alinghi and Oracle have a length in advance on the other syndicates.

The two billionaires teams agreed with the Club Náutico de Valencia to use the 3000 square meter place that was the Desafio Español base for the Louis Vuitton Cup 2000 (the new Spanish Challenge will compete under a new burgee).

However, it seems that the two megateams are ready to make a little room in the base for a third team, which could be the former Défi Areva.

A meeting was recently held about this in Monaco beetween Pepe Marzal, the commodore of the Real Club Náutico de Valencia, and the French representatives.