Great Britain topped the sailing medal table at Beijing, winning four golds, one silver and a bronze.
This is also important for the two nations' ambitions to top the sailing medals table.
And so went GB's chances of heading the sailing medal table for the fourth successive time.
It was Australia's third gold of the games and means they are bound to top the sailing medal table.
They also hope, along with Ainslie, that it will inspire others and help Britain finish top of the sailing medals table.
The full schedule is here, including archery, boxing, handball, rowing heats and semi-finals, the start of the sailing, more table tennis and tennis-tennis, volleyball beach and otherwise, and waterpolo.
The team finished top of the sailing medal table, with six medals won, thus exceeding the target of four set by UK Sport.
From athletics to wrestling, through basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, fencing, handball, judo, football, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, triathlon, taekwondo, volleyball, water polo, and weightlifting.
Sails and the Table Set Sailboat teams from New York restaurants will compete from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday in New York Harbor.
They'll be picking miserably at a single truffle shaving on a 2mm fragment of Kobe beef, watching a bottle of Petrus sail towards the table of London's last surviving Russian and begging for a smell of the cork.
