As apologies were received from Victory Challenge (SWE), challenge Representatives from eight of nine official Challengers were present :

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BMW Oracle (USA) -- Russell Green ;

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Piu 39 (ITA) -- Luca Devoti (alternate for Paul Henderson) ;

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Team Shosholoza (RSA) -- Salvatore Sarno ;

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Emirates Team NZ (NZL) -- James Farmer ;

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K-Challenge (FRA) -- George Clyde ;

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Luna Rossa (ITA) -- Bruno Finzi ;

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Desafio Espanol (ESP) -- John Cutler ;

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Mascalzone Latino (ITA) -- Tom Weaver (and Alessandra Pandarese, as alternate the second day).

Main decisions and points of discussion:

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A proposal by ACM for the Challenger Selection Series scoring/format was, by unanimous decision, not accepted, and the proposal adopted by the CC at its February meeting ("San Fran Plan") affirmed.

A working party of John Cutler, Tom Ehman, Bruno Finzi and Dawn Riley was appointed to meet with ACM officials, and attempt to reconcile differences and reach an agreement before the 29 April 2005 final challenge deadline.

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A number of prospective challengers requested that the CC seek an amendment to the Protocol to postpone the final challenge deadline (29 April 2005) to a date later. This was not supported.

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A draft Act 4 Notice of Race, previously negotiated by the Chairman with Dyer Jones and Brad Butterworth (Alinghi) following guidance from the CC at their February meeting, was reviewed and supported with minor modifications ;

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A proposal by the Defender to relax the 18th Crew rule, to allow persons with acknowledged technical or tactical skill to race as 18th Crew, was not supported ;

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It was unanimously agreed that onboard cameramen for the 2005 Acts should be permitted (as they were in 2004) ;

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It was agreed that, during the 2005 Acts, V4 masts should be allowed to be used in the event a team's (only) V5 mast fails ;

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A proposal from the Regatta Director to add, for Acts 10 and 12 (Valencia 2006), knock-out semifinals and finals for the top four boats at the end of round-robin racing was supported ;

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la demande adressée à ACM de transmettre un plan modifié de la Dàrsena Interior (avec un quai des superyacht repensé) ;

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a proposal for a fleet racing series in 2007 during the Louis Vuitton Cup semis and finals (for all Challengers that do not advance to the semifinals), was generally supported ;

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the Chairman reported on behalf of the Challenger of Record that the ISAF Review Board had received an application from Russell Coutts concerning Protocol Article 13.12, that the Review Board had forwarded the application to the Defender (SNG), the Challenger of Record (GGYC) and ACM asking for a response prior to 21 March, and that a letter has been sent by those three parties back to ISAF drawing their attention to the ISAF-ACM Agreement signed in November, 2003.

Under that Agreement the ISAF Review Board has no jurisdiction over the America's Cup. It was also noted that the Agreement states that the America's Cup can adopt, or decline to adopt, any ISAF Rule or Regulation; and that in the case of conflict between ISAF and AC rules or regulations, the AC rules/regulations prevail.

The CC received the report and agreed no action was required or appropriate on the part of the CC ;

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The CC continues to strongly oppose, for technical and fairness reasons as well as the enormous expense, the Met Data Service program as currently spec'd by ACM ;

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The CC asked ACM to forward to all teams the latest site plan for the Super Yacht Pier now under construction in the America's Cup Harbour ;

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A proposal from ACM to "update" the Cup logo on the mainsails was referred to the teams' marketing and legal departments. It will be considered further with the Defender ;

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la demande adressée à ACM de transmettre un plan modifié de la Dàrsena Interior (avec un quai des superyacht repensé) ;

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différents désaccords tenant aux droits TV, au marketing et aux autres aspects commerciaux de la compétition.

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