The Swiss newspaper Tribune de Genève is running an interview with Bernard Cardis, owner of the Decision SA yard and Team Alinghi builder.

Bernard Cardis as saying that it is "Impossible to build a giant multihull in six months" to compete in the 33rd America's Cup.

Tribune de Genève reports that the owner of the shipyard Decision SA in Vevey, is adamant that Alinghi will not be ready to face Oracle in October, if Justice Herman Cahn of the New York Supreme Court refuses to move the dates forward of the proposed duel to May 2009. or later.

With a bit of anxiety, Cardis awaits from one day to the other a phone call announcing to him the starting of a new gigantic project, that of a multihull (catamaran or trimaran) of 90 feet, in expectation of a singular duel between Alinghi and Oracle in an always unknown place. The problems lie in time that Decision SA will have to build this boat and so that the crew can carry out the developments and the essential confidence tests.

"If one asks me to build such a machine and to test it in less than six months so that it is ready with regatta at at the beginning of October, I say not. Impossible! We have reached a level of complexity such as each part must be analyzed, validated. With such 'a marine monster', one will develop speed, superperformance".

The Alinghi design Team, with Nigel Irens and Sebastien Schmidt in reinforcement, has studied the concept of the boat for several months, but construction has not yet started.

"The ideal, continues Cardis, would be to start the multihull in the during April and to deliver it to mid-December, which would leave then three months of tests on water."

For Alinghi, there is no other alternative, because if it rushes the program it compromises the safety of the sailors. 'One builds a boat light, powerful, which must transfer edge well and be shown extremely operating.

The other factor, it is the risk of breakage. The difficulty lies in the fact that on this kind of multi, we do not have same experience nor a data base as provided as for a monohull America's Cup Class. At 90 feet, they are almost three times larger than a Decision 35, with a mast between 45 and 50 meters in height. Then, you will understand that one cannot be precipitate.

"That is just too dangerous", Cardis said. "If Oracle wants to sail in October, it undoubtedly will only be found on the starting line. Or then it will be necessary to go there with the 41 feet Alinghi, the largest catamaran ever left a Swiss building site. Vis-a-vis with the 90 feet of Oracle, there would be no match!"

Bertrand Cardis also worries about colossal logistics to set up to build a giant multihull.

"To build 90 fter will require at least 50 000 working hours, that is to say more of the double than for the current America's Cup Class. That means that I must double the number of employees on the building site. And contrary to Oracle, which builds certainly two boats, the designers of Alinghi will have to be determined on the concept of their multihull, according to the place chosen for regatta".