Today racing started at 9h30 because because stronger winds caused by a low pressure system over Ireland would arrive in the early afternoon. But the delicious biscuits La Trinitaine quickly gave me the punch required. First I want to congratulate the SNT for the way they organize the whole thing from start to finish.   Too bad but we went left though right was slightly favoured which put us back in the pack at the top mark. We held on to this during the rest of the race and finished somewhere in the early twenties.

Race 2 was in medium conditions, we had good speed coming of the port end of the line, we tacked on starboard along with Le Glide and crossed the whole fleet. We sailed far to the right but the fleet converged at the very crowded top mark, needless to say this means a lot of yelling! We had a very good downwind leg, we went far right and sailed towards the pressure at the layline. We finished 14th.

For race 3 we barely made it to the line in time because we were switching our gennaker from starboard to port. Fernando, our helmsman took a perfect start, at speed on port tack at the right hand side of the line. We immediately tacked right which was not so good because at the upwind mark the whole pack almost crossed clear ahead of us. During the run and the next beat we gybed and tacked to try to regain what we had lost. We overtook a couple of boats but finished in the early twenties. This places us at 5"rd in the provisional ranking.

Tonight it's free beer and Kieler Sprotten, that's fish and has nothing to do with a rotten keel, offered by the German NCA to give us a taste of what the worlds 2008 in Kiel will be like.

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