Valencia (ES) - (2008-04-24) Alinghi, Defender of the 33rd America's Cup, today announced it is back to sailing pending the outcome of the legal situation in New York. The Swiss team confirmed at a press conference in Valencia that it is getting ready to start building the Deed of Gift Match multi-hull boat. It also kicked off its 2008 sailing programme, focusing on multi-hull racing, and announced several new team members. ''Today we have a way forward: Ernesto [Bertarelli] has committed to building this multi-hull and as long as we can get the pending issues resolved by the New York courts – including a race date in 2009 – we'll be sailing in a huge multi-hull against BMW Oracle, which is something pretty exciting,'' said Brad Butterworth, team skipper and tactician. ''We retained most of the sailors that we had from the last America's Cup – obviously with a slight downsize as we were planning on sailing just one 90footer – and now that we are in a multi-hull challenge, we have n ... continua ...
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