The New York Yacht Club held the cup for well over a century.
"That's why the New York Yacht Club kept the Cup for 130 years, " says Koch, who competed under the flag of the San Diego Yacht Club.
Over drinks in the Trophy Room of the New York Yacht Club, Ellison's consigliere in yachting matters, Tom Ehman, maintains that DoGZilla is a bargaining chip.
The defending team--for 132 years the New York Yacht Club--traditionally ran the final two-boat Cup race, while the challengers ran the elimination races leading up to it.
"Neither of them has to run the event to fund their own program, " says Thomas Ehman, Oracle's rules adviser and a Cup participant since 1980, when he was a rules adviser for the New York Yacht Club defense.
And the New York Yacht Club was accused in its early days of deliberately holding the race in the shallow waters off Manhattan so that British challengers, which had to be seaworthy enough to sail across the Atlantic, were at a disadvantage.
Despite the veneer of civility, fighting over the Cup began almost as soon as it came to the U.S. British challengers in the late 1800s complained first that they were forced to sail against entire fleets of defending yachts (the New York Yacht Club eventually agreed to race one defender).
Soldini seeks the Cadiz-San Salvador (Bahamas), Miami-New York and New York-Lizard Point (UK) records representing the Yacht Club Italiano, which dates back to 1879.
The treatment plant for tony Sag Harbor on Long Island, New York, is bookended by a shiny yacht club and a sailing school.
In New York, lawyers for Oracle and its sponsoring club, the Golden Gate Yacht Club, will argue that Bertarelli has violated the terms of the Deed of Gift governing the America's Cup.
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