Having waited out at speed spot since 1pm, they are now putting the rig up at the top of the course. The wind is still quite variable, from 18-26 knots but they are ready to go as soon as the wind plays ball! We will update again when the run is over.

We're off. The teams fired up and the wind is building.

The guys at OPTRON GEOMATICS have manged to salvage yesterdays data... but we have the TRIMBLES padded up like newborns to make their ride down the course as soft as possible.

The only thing I am nervous about today is that the wind will not build enough to let us shine.

We ahve been struggling with the live feed over the past few days so might have to communicate through these blogs.

All in all a great day of speed sailing. I sailed the best speed run I have ever done. Alex sits beside me going through the TRIMBLE GPS files. We did a run somewhere around 49.25/.5 mark. I stuck it in close to the shore, sheeted in to a 10 degree wing angle and banged the main flap in hard. The rest of the run was a piece of cake. The wind was solid but I still don't think I quite got the 'money' gust. A slight dip in the middle of the course cost us a couple of knots. 20 seconds either side might have made things go the other way.

Well, here we go again. It looks like we have two sailing days left as far as the forecast goes... and the forecasts look good. It is only 11-30 here and we are getting ready to take the boat across first. I want to be absolutely ahead of the game today. We spent the morning doing full rig-ups and calibrations on the lawns here and I am confident that she is ready for battle.

Today we have the option of tomorrow... tomorrow we have no option but to go in whatever we are given.