Good news: The rain has stopped while we were having breakfast. What you see is what we got pretty well all day. We are facing pretty well north here and our race course was a trapezoid more or less in the area east of a line between the end of the dock and the point a couple of kilometres behind it. Someone has already launched! What enthusiasm!

Although the cavalier attitude of Team Fogh/Bjerregaard about registering 6 weeks past the deadline annoyed my host, Jesper finally relented and once the buoyancy test was successfully completed under the eagle eyes of the Coach and Neel Johansen (holding mast above), our record DM entry reached 36!! This kind of rainy day activity is best watched rather than participated in - preferably while having a coffee and a smoke in the shelter of the tent on the club deck - which Anders and I did.

Stephan Nandrup-Bus asks a question - in dansk, of course - as were the rest of the proceedings that morning naturally: the perfect excuse for Uncle Al not to listen at the Skippers' Meeting - even better than his usual which is John Weakley's assurance that oral statements made at the Skippers' Meeting have absolutely no standing as Sailing Instructions. And speaking of SI's, I had the perfect excuse not to really study them since my interpreter, Anders, was doing that!!

The White Knights? Steen Anthonsen (front left), longtime crew for W1741 Jørgen Vekslund, and of course, the Coach for W9355 and W239, Jesper Graves Petersen (front right). Showing great concentration in the background are the skipper of W5250 Jørgen Øllgaard (left) and on the right is Bo Christensen's crew, Thomas Andersson.  
Poul's note: Jørgen and his crew, Anders Rytter, are from the Gymnastic Highscool "OURE" on Fyn, where they  also teach in sailing, specially match racing! (I'm only 95% sure about the last!)