Even the weather is cooperating. Could not have been better yesterday -- warm, no rain, nice 10-12 knot breeze. Today it has dawned clear and cool, and Chris Bedford's forecast is for stronger winds again out of the northeast -- the perfekt direction for the alignment and location of the race courses we have here in Kiel.

Today's format and timing the same as yesterday's:

12:00 - Warning Signal, Fleet Race 1
12:05 - Start, FR1, in the Kiel fjord off the Promenade
13:15 - Finish, FR1*
13:30 - Start, Match Race 1, USA vs GER *
14:30 - Start, Match Race 2, GER vs. RSA*
15:30 - Start, Match Race 3, RSA vs. USA*
16:30 - Start, Fleet Race 2*
17:50 - Finish, FR2, in the Kiel fjord off the Promenade

*Finish of FR1, all match racing, and the start of FR2 takes place in the famous sailing waters off Schilksee, site of the 1972 Olympic Harbour.