The 32nd America's Cup Race area has now been established, thus meeting one of the "terms of challenge" clauses.

The race area will extend, from north to south from Puebla de Farnals to Perelló (some 15 nautical miles) and cover some 12 nautical miles eastwards to meridian 000 º 2,5’ West, with a resulting area of 180 nautical miles.

If over 13 teams were eventually to register, the area would be extanded a further 3 miles northwards and six miles southwards to Cullera Cape.

From now on this piece of sea, with an area of approximatively 600 square Km, will be the most closely studied portion of the World with a real-time weather observation and analysis network available to all participants at all times.

For the first time in the history of the cup, the race area will be signalled with 20 buoys equipped with the most up-to-date for weather observation and analysis.

In the meantime, fifty-five days after the Socialists won the general elections, the new Government still has not named the four delegates that it intends to place on the Americas Cup Committee that is charged with setting up the infrastructures as well as bearing the overall responsibility for the races.

A statement from Valencia Town Hall has revealed that the municipality considers these appointments as extremely urgent, as the Consortium is unable to function properly.