Does anyone know if or when we’ll see a good book out on this event? You’ll probably see a DVD of some kind, but a big book with details you can read and good photos to look at can be a cherished addition to your library of things America’s Cup.
I think the answer to “IF” will be a big YES. the only question left is the when and who will do the book.
I still haven’t been able to find a beer stein in the form of the ‘Auld Mug.’ 
not sure the Auld mug would make a good beer stein… Golfs claret jug would make a better stein…
Maybe I’d use it for milk or lemonade…
my concern isn’t what you put inside. I’m thinking hard hard it would be to drink from it?
I’ve seen fancy cups or steins at most every classic event. I wanted a cup or mug from the America’s Cup, and I like fancy beer steins too, so I thought there might be something that resembles the Auld Mug (a stein with that’s fatter in the middle) that you could drink from. But from the look of the Claret Jug, which has a similar shape, it wouldn’t be too easy to drink anything. Unless you could flip open the top part with the long neck, or integrate a long straw it would be better as a pitcher.
I agree. it would be great for doing beer bongs…
America’s Cup TV picks up another award!
ACTV received the Sportel Innovation Prize, a Golden Podium award for outstanding technical achievement in broadcast, because of AC LiveLine.
As a sailor, I already understand what I see on the TV, but the LiveLine graphics adds a few things, like the ladder bars and such that make it easier to figure out who’s ahead, where the current is, and other stuff you can’t see from just looking at the TV screen.
I"ll bet you the NFL guys and the nascar guys (and even baseball) don’t even know that the graphics stuff you see on football games and car races is the result of some guys that wanted to improve the TV viewing experience of yacht racing. The probably think the LiveLine stuff was done just for them.
Here is an example of a nice AC beer stein, but it isn’t the Auld Mug:
Did Oracle CHEAT??
A Kiwi news agency did a report on how some people were claiming that OTUSA had a mysterious “stability augmentation system” on the boat that helped them foil upwind. ETNZ had worked for many days to try and figure out how to be stable upwind, but could not figure it out, but OR got it down pat n only a few days!
http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwi-fans-ask-Did-Oracle-cheat/tabid/415/articleID/314800/Default.aspx
The key point that you will hear in the video is that the “Jury” declared the system legal.
I watched ETNZ foil upwind in the LV Finals when they needed to foot down across LR. They were plenty stabile then. There was a lot of talk about how it was fast, but VMG not as good.
Oracle figured out how, maybe a little more angle of attack on the board? And use it when in adverse current? And it took them 8 race days, and those in between, to figure it out. It took Oracle a week to get decent at roll tacking, when we saw ETNZ and LR doing it in the LV Finals.
The good old days ??? Ran across this in my “collection” 1995 LV series.
Maybe that’s why they moved it in the Bay, to make the salvage operation easier…
oracle ended up 4 miles out in the ocean…that salvage looked anything but easy…
OK, I’ll throw my towel in on this:
I spent some time looking up the significance of the number 17, and there was nothing that hits you as the obvious choice for a 72 foot foiling cat, or any America’s Cup yacht in general, so I’d like to ask you all what the real reason for choosing that number was.
asked online at SA…
Larry Ellison - born August 17 1944
plausible…
ok got a few more…
There are 17 distinct sets of regular polygons that can be packed around a point (e.g., 4 squares, 2 hexagons and 2 triangles, etc)
There are exactly 17 ways to express 17 as the sum of 1 or more primes - 17 is the only integer which is equal to the number of prime partitions of itself
17 is the number of wallpaper groups
17 is the only prime of the form pq + qp, where p and q are prime
17 is the only multidigit number n such that n + SOD(n) and n - SOD(n) are square numbers, where SOD means sum of digits
17 is described at MIT as ‘the most random number’, according to hackers’ lore
17 is the number of syllables in a haiku
17 is the smallest odd prime such that no odd Fibonacci number is divisible by it
17 is the minimum number of Sudoku clues that produces a unique answer
Wikipedia lists the displacement of DOGzilla (USA 17, AC 33) as 17 Tons. Coincidence?
What does wallpaper or hexagons have to do with AC boat registration numbers?? No one has even mentioned “numerology” yet. There is a BIG difference between coincidences and hard facts. I think a 1-minute conversation with Mr. Coutts or JS would settle this.
The actual reason that the umber 17 was used is because it was the next registration number, after all the AC45s and the other AC72s were registered. Just like the Ford Model T was so named because it came after the Model S.
I’ll bet you that somebody dropped out of the AC competition because AC72 is a “4-letter word?” 
I think somebody here has too much spare time?
since oracle had TWO ac72’s then one of them could have been 17, but not both…
there were 12 ac45’s
and 6 ac72s
two US boats
two artemis
one NZ
and one LR
thats 18 boats that we know about.
Artemis#2 would have been #18
Oracle #2 would have been #17
which means Oracle #1 would have been #16 or lower…
andin theory it woudl have been US# 1,2,3,4,5 since there were 3 ac45’s and 2 AC72’s bearing a United States Registration number…
so even if US17 was registered at the proper time to get 17. the second oracle boat should have carried a different sail number in theory anyway…
Then what came before the model S? definitely not the model R
and then why did the Model A come after the model T?