Racing resumes today after a welcome and well-deserved day off on Monday. However, the design team was hard at work at our team base yesterday, as was the marketing team, who had sponsor and media functions in full swing all day -- to say nothing of the exciting action in NYC (preceding post).

Eagerly anticipated by all are the two big match-ups today among the "big four": SUI v. NZL and our match with ITA/LR. Our second opponent is the light-air flyer ITA/ML (Dennis Conner's challenger from AC 2003, of course heavily modified to current Version 5 of the ACC rule) that is among if not the narrowest boat in the fleet).

The pairing list for both flights scheduled today (9 & 10) is, as usual, available here to peruse or download. I say "scheduled" because the forecast for wind is not great. CB says it should be raceable, but it has dawned hazy and overcast here this morning and there may not be much of a seabreeze. If so it could be a long, slow day; any matches not completed would be raced on the Thursday (another reserve day).

And here's the early morning scoop from Beddow....


Good news is that we are on the south ("Juliet") course for both races
today. Usually there is better wind for more hours of the day on the
south course down off El Soler beach. And the SUI-NZL match is also on
Juliet, so we and our VIP guests will get a good look at that match as well.