carwreck.com: around Boston harbor...

The America's Cup is supposed to be the world's premiere yachting race. It has, for over a hundred years, been the ultimate test of sailing skill and knowledge. The Cup has evolved over the years and the level of competition has changed, putting a higher and higher emphasis on boat design, sail design and technology. Budgets have soared and it now costs in the area of hundreds of millions of dollars to put on a challenge to the America's Cup defender from the previous Cup. Is this yacht racing? Teams are now preparing to compete again, 132 years after the first AC, setting up compounds down in Auckland, New Zealand. And what are the biggest issues reaching the press about the preparations; lawsuits, Arbitration Panels, ineligibility for breaching Protocol, tribunals, and other assorted nonsense and bickering. This is yacht racing?

Actually, it sounds a lot like ProRally to me... >}

Sometimes it's so easy, I'm ashamed of myself...but yes, this is what happens when too much money gets involved. Too much money, in yacht racing?