Media mogul Ted Turner and five other...
Media mogul Ted Turner and five other former America’s Cup skippers have asked New York’s highest court to rule against the San Diego Yacht Club, which won the sailing race with a catamaran.
Turner and the other skippers filed papers with the New York Court of Appeals, asking to join a friend-of-the-court brief filed last month by seven other former skippers.
Arguments in a challenge brought by New Zealand’s Mercury Bay Yacht Club, which lost the 1988 race, are scheduled for next month. Under century-old rules, the court is the final arbiter of disputes over the America’s Cup.
At issue is the catamaran captained by Dennis Conner for the San Diego Yacht Club, which successfully defended the America’s Cup in 1988. The challengers in that race, the Mercury Bay Yacht Club of New Zealand, have argued that the vessel gave the Americans an unfair advantage and should have been disqualified. Several yacht clubs have also come out in support of the New Zealand club.
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