A good day

Well today we finally got down to some racing. Garda has been a fantastic place to be for the last few weeks, but after all we are here to race a worlds and it was great to be out there competing.

We had a pretty typical Garda 'Ora' breeze built from about 12knots for our first race to 16knots later in the day.

Fortunately for us we had a pretty good day, we managed a 1,2,7 in three races to finish the day in 5th overall. Very early days but its nice to know all the work we have been doing is paying off at least a little. The boat is going fast and we hopefully will only get better as the regatta goes on.

But as they say tomorrow is a new day and we have to take it as it comes!

Enough cliches, you can see the results at www.49erworlds.org, or follow links from www.sailing.org.

Two more days of Qualifying then we get split into finals fleets, 25 boats make the cut....