Here's what I found for the AC Finals TV scehds:

America's Cup Finals
September 7 - Races 1+2 - NBC - 4:00pm ET
September 8 - Races 3+4 - NBC - 4:00pm ET
September 10 - Races 5+6 – NBC Sports Network - 3:30pm ET
September 12 - Races 7+8 – NBC Sports Network - 3:30pm ET
September 14 - Races 9+10 - NBC Sports Network - 3:30pm ET
September 15 - Races 11+12 - NBC Sports Network - 3:30pm ET (if necessary)
September 17 - Races 13+14 - NBC Sports Network - 3:30pm ET (if necessary)
September 19 - Races 15+16 - NBC Sports Network- 3:30pm ET (if necessary)
September 21 - Races 17 - NBC Sports Network - 3:30pm ET (if necessary)

Race Schedule

Broadcast Schedule (Click on N.AMERICA tab.)

Yeah, I know, I'm in for Wildcat and Sarasota, if I can get the days off.

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.

Ummm....days of from Delta or from the wifey?

'The New Zealand Government’s investment of $36 million in Emirates Team New Zealand’s campaign has been more than returned in direct tax revenue alone, not to mention the great profiling of New Zealand as a brand associated with world-leading technology,' says Busfield.

New Zealand’s $350 million role in the 2013 America’s Cup

Kostecki on the Cup

Ummm....days of from Delta or from the wifey?
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From Delta. We won't have our Oct. scheds published until about Sept. 15.

Right now Wildcat is safe, only because I'm flying over Labor Day weekend, so they really can't use me again for a few days afterwards, which should include Oct. 4-6, but the Sarasota thing is what I'll have to bid off for, and that might be tough to get now that most of the senior guys want all their weekends off to watch Football.

I may end up working every weekend in Oct, other than that first one, just like I'm working every Friday-Monday in Aug and Sept, 4 on, 3 off. Laying over in Dubai in the heat of Aug-Sept is Fun Fun!

Wait.... there's OLDER guys than you in the left seat? yeesh...

Do they have trouble remembering where they put the airport?

He's not exactly beaming with confidence.

The Oracle camp has been extremely quiet lately, maybe because they're scared . . . . and should be.

Maybe they're sandbagging.

(I hope)

The defender race was good to see. A few boat handling mistakes out there but overall, Spithill and Co did a very good job out there.

I agree though - things have been quiet. Not that I don't like meeting the team but how about some new sailing info as to what's going on currently... I can't wait to see the two teams line up in 10 days!

I'm sure the shore teams been working triple time - not only to keep boat 2 in top shape but also repair boat 1 now (again). Hopefully there wasn't too much structural damage to the rudder assembly. I would guess with the loads they are designed to handle - that isn't exactly a breakaway piece....

Or the time for bluster has ended and they are playing their cards tight to their chest. If I recall, that's the way it went down for the D.O.G. match against Alinghi. Not a lot of chatter. Of course coverage was a bit different too.

I thought it was boat#2 with the rudder problem?

Nope. Ainslie drives #1. That's the one that hit the mooring consequently later breaking the rudder.

Does these statements by Oracle's JK bother anybody?

"What particularly impresses you?

JK: Their jibing and their tacking. As you’ve seen, you can gain hundreds of meters in one jibe. They're very consistent out there. Probably we still have a ways to go to catch up to them in that.



Do you really think so?

JK: Yeah, I think so. In some conditions our consistency isn’t quite as good as theirs at the moment. They’ve had the same group of sailors for a long time. We have a big group here. Just recently we’ve gone with more of a racing team and a back-up team, splitting that onto the two boats, so we’re still learning each day when we’re out together. That’s a little bit of a factor. I’m not saying we can’t get there, we still have up to seven more sailing days. Hopefully, we’ll do a few two-boat days also."

With only 7 more sailing days to go, they are still trying to work on their consistency? Meanwhile, ETNZ is working on foiling upwind and down, they perfected their consistency a long time ago!