Originally Posted by azcat
Ok, the report says that the king posts were 7 and 9 mm longer than regulation( the rest of the fleet). This article says that they were "four or five times longer"(Ballastgate). haven't seen any pics or measurements and am no math whiz, and no English whiz either, but doesn't that make the king posts on the other boats about 1 mm long, plus or minus 1mm?


It's all just a media flurry right now. Now that the initial reaction is wearing off a little with the light that the modifications were really tiny and, quite possible, done without higher direction within Oracle, the opposition is starting to surmise that the kingpost mods mean Oracle was cheating in other areas. Other teams started scouring the Oracle boats in semi-secret. Oracle filed a protest at the unsportsmanlike like behavior (trespassing, etc.) against them but later withdrew it to "gain additional evidence". I hate this stuff. If the measurers had caught it earlier, this wouldn't have been as painful.


Jake Kohl