Our Team Meteorologist Chris Bedford (USA) calls for a nice 10-13 knot easterly seabreeze to fill in by the scheduled 1400 warning (ten-minute) signal for our match today with +39. It has warmed up a bit the last couple days, and for the first time this year it is starting to feel like summer has arrived in Valencia.

We were calling it the "orphan" match, since it is the lone match today (the only one for which the time limit ran out the other day). Others are calling it the "widow match" which, in these politcally-correct times may seem insensitive if not sexist to some? And our dear readers know how hard we try at all times to be PC! :)

Regardless, it is a full on race day here albeit without VIP guests and, hence, our usual trio or quartet of VIP spectator boats. We went through our normal race-day mornng schedule, and series of meetings. Even though they have been struggling a bit we take +39 very seriously. They have shown bursts of speed, and won both their matches yesterday in similar conditions expected today. +39 skipper Iain Percy and tactician Ian Walker, good friends of many of us on this team, were prominent guests at our barbecue last evening. Both are double Olympic medalists and, without a doubt, will be gunning for an upset today.


Summer breezes, make me feel fine...la, la, la....