Another beautiful morning here. Frontal passage still predicted for midday, however, accompanied by some squalls or brief showers. Chris B says raceable all day albeit decreasing breeze after the front passes.

New regatta starting; two fleet races today, two tomorrow and one Sunday.

The RC announced last night that Bruno's Buoy (see previous posts) will be trialled today. Indeed Bruno was seen launching it this morning, and once again the BMWOR Blog has the exclusive pix! No time to post now as we have to start the Morning Show in five minutes down at the Foredeck Club.

Another big crowd of VIP Oracle and BMW guests on hand again today -- again over 100 including the Mayor of Malmo. Nice to have such interest, and support.



Our thanks to Chris Bedford for supplying these slides each day,
which we use here on the Blog and in the Morning Show for our
VIP guests. He has a fair bit on from 0400 or so when he gets
up to prognosticate each race day morning.


Team meteorologist Chris Bedford (USA), right, with assistant,
Rod Dawson (NZL, and a champion match racer with Peter
Gilmour's Pizza-La team) after finishing their morning data
dump. Next they will brief the sailing team, then head out to the
race course.