Day 2

Well it was another hot day here in Texas. The daily skippers briefing has been put back to 11:30 and each morning they dish out the "bullets" from the day before in the form or hats. So it has changed from bananas to hats. Just as the skippers briefing finished, a good sized thunderstorm descended on the area and the racing went into a holding pattern for a while. Team NZ retired to our convenient air conditioned bungalow and waited for the flag to go up so we could head out and do battle.

Scott and I hitched a ride on a large Grand Banks power boat with the hope of getting some kind of view of the action on the water. We were mostly anchored up just below the gate so we had the binoculars trained on the start line in the distance and were sometimes just able to spot the NZL numbers coming off the pin in most races.  The pin had a bias on it most of the day varying with severity as the fresh sea breeze oscillated back and forth through some 20degrees. Then as each fleet rotated around the course we were able to pick up the NZL numbers amongst the leaders each time they approached the gate.

Isaac approaches the gate in 3rd, hot on the heels of the leaders

Today Markus and Leonard were in the same flight and were usually within spitting distance of one an other at the gate but I was too busy watching and forgot to take any pictures!

Anyway, awesome sailing conditions and great racing for the guys.

Leonard comes ashore after a pretty good day on the water.