The America's Cup Home page was completely unintelligible to me... twice as bad as Nascar website... try to find information? Yuck. Schedule and results? Strange... Couldn't find any commentary on the races. But they DO offer a Clean Boater Pledge, considerable information on AC Open, and more info on the Concert Series.
The sports pages of the major newspapers don't seem to know what to make of the races. Reporting is terrible, and a few days behind.
That said, watching the replays has been a fascinating experience. From what I can see, we're still in a learning experience, with so many variables I doubt that any computer could sort the strategy out.
The sail
The total weight, incredible, and bouncing like a tennis ball
The team weight, moving from side to side
The required strength from the winders
The hulls, in and out of the water
The daggerboards and it seems, no trim tabs (that I could see), so reliant to the manual raising and lowering. Flexible to a fearful level.
Tacking with a foil sail
Covering @ 45 mph
Jibing... how would ya know?
Almost everything that one has ever learned about sailing, different. A whole new dimension. The learning curve is apparent with each race, as speeds and "apparent" strategy changes.
A lot of the racing doesn't make sense to me... some racing with both hulls in the water, some with one... and anywhere from 1 to four daggerboards in the water... Boggles the mind.
On board cameras amd microphone...very exciting.
The cideo is great, not kust for the shots, but the "lines" on the screen, showing distance, and the speedometers showing comparitive speeds. A fabulous viewing experience.
If the printed media, the online coverage, and the TV networks can ever get their acts together, it could be a great sports experience. NBS sports is not in my DirecTV package, so the tv menu doesn't show it. Strange... with no notice from anyone, the cup coverage is available there, but the channel is blocked on a usua, regular basis.
It's like a superbowl that is being ignored.
That's my opinion...