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AMERICA'S CUP MASTERS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR SALE
The intellectual property rights to America's Cup Masters are for sale. The rights are currently owned by a private limited company registered in England and Wales and will remain so until the business is sold to a new owner. All interested parties should contact the owners of the business via the email address on the contact us page of this website.
AMERICA'S CUP MASTERS IS THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICA'S CUP
The aim of the America's Cup Masters is to promote and run a regatta or series of regattas, match races, fleet races or demonstrations that will connect the modern high technology America's Cup with its' heritage and traditions. We think it would be just great to see the heritage yachts sparring again at the America's Cup venue and generally maintaining an active and vibrant connection between the heritage yachts and yachtsmen and the modern America's Cup. It is, after all, the heritage yachts that made the America's Cup what it is today.
The America’s Cup Masters is intended to enhance the America’s Cup season by incorporating the heritage component of the sport, a highly successful concept, easily adapted from motor sport. The powerful combination of nostalgia and high technology has transformed both the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival Meetings into the most popular and inspirational events in the motor sporting calendar.
And the spectacular America’s Cup Jubilee Regatta at Cowes in 2001 was a clear demonstration that the combination of heritage and high technology proposed by America’s Cup Masters will transfer to yachting with the same phenomenal success as in the motor sporting world.
The America’s Cup Masters could be run at any venue but the America’s Cup story began at Cowes in 1851 and therefore it is historically appropriate that Cowes and Newport should be adopted as the principal venues for the Masters except in Cup years when the Masters will ideally be run as a complimentary race series to America's Cup events at the America’s Cup venue.
The idea is that the Masters regatta will be open to yachts formally used in the America’s Cup or yachts of the former America's Cup classes (including pre-Universal and Universal Rule, J-Class, 12 Metre and International America’s Cup Class and any future yachts or classes of yacht previously connected with the America’s Cup as selected for any particular regatta by the event or class organisers) and their crews, past, present and future. We hope that by integrating heritage yacht racing with the America’s Cup, the Masters will help to increase both media and spectator interest and sponsorship revenues for the America’s Cup itself.
In its’ simplest form America’s Cup Masters can be run as an independent classic yacht competition within existing Class regatta schedules or as a part of any regatta that includes other classes of yacht. The ultimate objective of the Masters is full integration with the America’s Cup, operated as a joint venture by the Trustee and Class Associations.
Indeed, the America's Cup Masters has the potential to provide an annual showcase for the America's Cup and a stable platform from which to launch and support all future America's Cup developments, trials and challenges.
The America’s Cup Masters is a unique opportunity for a sponsor with vision and enthusiasm to help create one of the world's great new sailing events. If you’re interested, let’s get started.
AMERICA'S CUP MASTERS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR SALE
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