After a short break for "Pope Weekend," 76 and 87 and the sailing and support teams were back at it today on the Mediterranean waters off Valencia, while many of our shore team and marketing team were hard at work planning and organizing our next gig: the German Sailing Grand Prix, the regatta with Shosholoza and United Internet Team Germany at Kiel (GER) the first weekend of August.

Mark "Squark" Bradford (AUS, sailing team) has been appointed by Dicko as project manager so far as our entry in the event as a team is concerned, and Mirko has Benedikt "Pope" Horber (GER, marketing team) overseeing the day-to-day details of the event which we are, in effect, co-hosting with the other two teams and their sponsors -- with plenty of help from the City of Kiel and the Kieler Yacht Club.

As you can imagine, the design and boat-build teams are beavering away at undisclosed location(s) and at certain stage(s) in the preparations for the launch of our second new ACC yacht later this year or early next year (sorry, exactly when is, as yet, also unable to be disclosed).


Not undisclosed is the work Andy Falakoa (NZL, shore team) and other
members of the shore team are doing this week on USA 71 at our VLC
Base to prepare for the German Sailing Grand Prix next month. 71 will
race GER 72 and RSA 48 in a three-day event of fleet and match racing at
Kiel (GER) 4-6 Aug.