Race 8 cancelled. RBYAC is history.
RBYAC Final results: 1) NZ2 57 pts, 2) NZ1 45, 3) POR 44, 4) SUI 43, 5) US1 42, 6) SWE 39, 7) AUS 38, 8) FRA 37, 9) GER 30, 10) US2 15

Today's Recap

Looks like the wind forecast for Saturday is for 8kt. Possibly displacement mode races. Would stink to go all the way out there and not see a foiling race. However, more drama.

some more from caen

"96. The Jury has no intention to impose a penalty that will determine the outcome of the Match, which should best be determined on the water and not in the Jury room. But for these mitigating factors the penalty would have been heavier."

JN117

Replay race 7

What's with the wheel?

Great read.
Rich Club, Poor Club

A party may request that a hearing be reopened within 24 hours if protest committee made a significant error or if significant new evidence becomes available (RRS 66), but may not request redress. See RRS 62.1(a) "request for redress or a protest committee’s decision to consider redress shall be based on a claim or possibility that a boat’s score in a race or series has been or may be, through no fault of her own, made significantly worse by an improper action or omission of the race committee, protest committee, organizing authority, equipment inspection committee or measurement committee for the event, but not by a protest committee decision when the boat was a party to the hearing"

You've just pointed out that there is a case for redress...

Paralympic Trials, Newport, winners sent to China. Redress hearings every night, all week, for an issue that occurred in Day 1. Each time the results were posted/updated, another filing was submitted.

Granted, that was the same Quad as Hall, so there have been lots of procedural changes since then, but there is still a window.

Mike

Finals press conference with the Challenger and the Defender live on YouTube at 9:30am PT
http://t.co/9XYISmWWqX

First sane thing I've heard all week!

The one question I found interesting was when JS was asked whether they would be using a hard wing jib instead of a soft one. My connection to the web isn't very good at work so I'm not completely sure if I saw it right, check out the facial expressions.

I think the interviewer was talking about the end-plate below the jib, but probably didn't actually know what he was talking about.

According to the rules carrying soft sails is mandatory anyway.

Presser replay.

Looked up the rule and yes, only allowed one wing.

Forbes article on tech

Dalton on improvements since LV Cup.

No love between these two

Again, Richard Gladwell