{"id":198,"date":"2004-11-05T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/tiger_sues_yacht_builder\/"},"modified":"2004-11-05T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T15:03:56","slug":"tiger_sues_yacht_builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/swing_thoughts\/tiger_sues_yacht_builder","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Sues Yacht Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tiger_woods_yacht.jpg\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/swing_thoughts\/tiger_woods_yacht.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"125\" class=\"bordered\" \/>Tiger Woods has filed suit against Vancouver firm Christensen Shipyards concerning the purchase of the luxury yacht &#8220;Privacy&#8221;. The so-named 155-foot vessel cost Woods $20 million or so. But you&#8217;d think spending that much money and calling the darned thing &#8220;Privacy&#8221;, that you&#8217;d expect some. In fact, Tiger didn&#8217;t just expect it, he demanded it with a confidentiality agreement.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe actual sales contract allows the builder to &#8220;take and use photographs of the Motor Yacht during construction, and before and after delivery for purposes of Builder&#8217;s publishing, trade, advertising, or general purpose, along with printed matter&#8221;, however, &#8220;it agrees not to disclose Customer&#8217;s name&#8221;. Moreover, the &#8220;builder shall not disclose the name of the Motor Yacht or the identity of Customer&#8217;s principal or any member of his family for any purpose, including, without limitation, promotion or marketing of Builder&#8217;s products&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>These words apparently didn&#8217;t mean anything to Christensen Shipyards as they allegedly have been distributing photos of &#8220;Privacy&#8221; to yachting magazines and, during a recent Fort Lauderdale boat show, used Tiger&#8217;s name to promote the firm.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit accuses Christensen Shipyards of starting a &#8220;widespread national campaign&#8221; using Woods&#8217; name and photos of the yacht and claims more than $75,000 in damages for Woods for having his privacy violated. Based on his &#8220;established value as an endorser and promoter of products,&#8221; Woods estimates that compensatory damages in the matter could exceed $50 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/\" title=\"The Smoking Gun\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Smoking Gun<\/a> has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/1103041tigerwoods1.html\" title=\"14-page lawsuit\" class=\"external external_icon\">14-page lawsuit<\/a> filing as well as an excerpt from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/1103041tigerwoods12.html\" title=\"Sales Contract excerpt\" class=\"external external_icon\">February 2004 sales contract<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/1103041tigerwoods13.html\" title=\"sworn declaration\" class=\"external external_icon\">sworn declaration<\/a> by Elin Nordegren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods sues Christensen Shipyards claiming unauthorized use of his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swing_thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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