Société Nautique de Genève
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The Société Nautique de Genève is a yacht club based in Geneva (Switzerland). It was founded in 1872 with the goal of developing nautical sports and high level sailors. Currently the club has about 3000 members.
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The club held the America's Cup from 2003 until 2010, staging one successful defense in 2007 with its Alinghi syndicate.
The club is very active in yacht racing and high-performance catamarans have been developed specifically for the lake.[1] The design of Alinghi 5, the defender of the 2010 America's Cup, was influenced by those racing catamarans.[1] The best-known event, the "Bol d'or" [fr] (not to be confused with other events having the same name) runs from Geneva to the end of the lake and back.[2]