Legal Opinion
Mercury Bay Boating Club Inc. v. San Diego Yacht Club
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 26, 1990PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Alexander, J.
On September 7 and 9, 1988, in the waters off San Diego, California, Mercury Bay Boating Club Inc.’s challenger vessel, the New Zealand, a monohull-keel yacht, was defeated two races to none by San Diego Yacht Club’s defending twin-hulled catamaran, the Stars and Stripes, in the 27th America’s Cup match. Contending that San Diego’s defense of the Cup by sailing an inherently faster multihull catamaran against a larger, but slower monohull yacht was unsportsmanlike, antithetical to the concept of "friendly competition between foreign countries” and a "gross…
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