VLC 2020 Wed

On the eve of Act 12, it is a warm, humid and airless evening in Valencia. Some of us are still here at the Base beavering away including....

Jane "Bubbles" Eagleson (USA), whose p.r. task never ends, is working on a request from the Today Show for another BMW ORACLE appearance next week. Nice!

Grant "Guthrie" Davidson (NZL) is here trying to sort out another power outtage (the third in as many days) which has cut the electricity off at our base and Luna Rossa's next door -- through no fault of ours! Not nice. In fact, a royal pain.

Russell "Greenie" Green (NZL) is hosting a nice (to be sure) group from our clothing partner, Henri Lloyd, including co-CEO Paul Strzelecki (GBR) -- who is among the nicest guys involved in AC 32.

Rules advisor Richard Slater (AUS) is at his apartment, but the phones are ringing and emails are flying back and forth as he sorts out final details on tomorrow's racing with the race committee and umpires.

No doubt there are others down in the sail loft, design office, and boat shed still hard at it.

For tomorrow, you heard it here first, or at least read it -- the pairing list for tomorrow's first day of Act 12. We race UITG (GER) in the first and Shosholoza (RSA) in the second.

And it is different from that which had been published some days ago, due to ACM's good efforts to improve the host TV broadcast. The TV "matches of the day" have been moved from the first match on each race course to the third match on each -- so the TV people can cover the starts of matches one and two before focusing their cameras for the duration on the third match.

Wind? Looks to be lightish again tomorrow, indeed for most of the early part of the regatta.

More tomorrow, but to quote once again our friends on the 2007AC Forums, "Let's Regatta."


The sailing team on a brief check-sail this afternoon on USA 87, our entry
for Act 12, waving to a group of school kids from Caxton College on a last-
week-of-school field, er, sea trip. This evening Dicko reported that all
systems are go.