After much debate, the 32nd America's Cup is throwing caution to the wind and scheduling Louis Vuitton Act 13, the final fleet racing series that precedes the Louis Vuitton Cup in April 2007.

The racing calendar for the 32nd America's Cup always listed 13 Louis Vuitton Acts. However, Act 13 didn't exist, with the schedule leaping from Act 12 in 2006, to Act 14 in 2007.

This scheduling of course reflected the common western superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.

However, the team representatives who drafted the 'Valencia Plan' which details the attribution of bonus points through performance in the Louis Vuitton Acts referred to a '13th Act' and 'Act 13'.

So following that lead and to avoid further confusion, that's the way we'll communicate from now onwards.