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The ongoing battle over the rights to organise the increasingly important Cannes Yachting Festival, being waged between the Anglo-Dutch company Reed and the French Federation of Industries Nautiques (FIN), seems set to continue for some considerable time. The ongoing battle over the rights to organise the increasingly important Cannes Yachting Festival, being waged between the Anglo-Dutch company Reed and the French Federation of Industries Nautiques (FIN), seems set to continue for some considerable time, Superyacht Business‘ sister tittle IBI, reports. Following FIN’s move to serve notice on Reed in...

Two-time defending champion Oracle Team USA on Tuesday night became the latest team to unveil the wing-sailed, foiling catamaran it will sail in the 35th America's Cup in Bermuda this year. Skipper Jimmy Spithill said the boat, which is just longer than 49 feet, is more refined than the 45-foot cat the syndicate has been training in. Oracle unveiled USA 17 in its shed and will launch and christen it with champagne on Wednesday. After dockside testing, the boat will go for its first sail as soon as the weather permits. "Now it really starts for this boat," Spithill said by phone from Bermuda. "There are 100 days to go and the clock's ticking. We really need to put...