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After months of speculation as to what type of boat Alinghi plans to use to defend the America's Cup, the cat's now out of the bag. At least it will be once the giant hangar style marquee that is sitting just a few hundred metres from the shores of Lake Geneva in Villeneuve is disassembled. As the white fabric walls come down this Sunday, the Swiss team's giant catamaran will be prepared for its launch on Wednesday 8 July, a task that will involve the world's most powerful helicopter, a Russian Mi-26 that will lift the catamaran over the buildings before lowering her into the small harbour next door. So what does she look like? She's wide, very wide. While the team won't confirm specific dimensions, the assembly tent is understood to be 30mx40m, a space that she fills amply from beam to beam with around 10m to spare in the... [read full story]
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