9PM Dinner in the daylight

Actually, it's 10PM and still light out here in Largs.  We're getting used to driving on the left side of the road and being served Sprites when we order lemonade, but it's hard to get used to driving home at 10PM when it's still light out.  

It looked for a while like Team USA wouldn't get out on the water today as the water was glassy and not a flag was moving, so we rigged again and sorted out various setups and loaded the gear back into our storage trailer.  Of course, as soon as we did and Coach Bryan set off with the sailors for a RIB tour of the bay... breeze up!  Perhaps not quite "up", but 4-8 and enough to get out on the water so rigging got rolling and they were off.   Well, all off except Ben Kern who forgot his blades in the locked trailer.  His was a lonely Opti in the slipway until he retrieved a spare set and launched in hot pursuit of the rest of the team!

Certainly not the solid 10-15+ we're expecting for the week but good enough to get the Team sorted and make sure everyone knows where to launch and what rocks to avoid on the way out, important stuff if you want to get your charter deposit back!

Team dinner at Regattas, the hotspot of the Largs Yachting Center, was quite the affair.  With 25 Americans taking over the second floor they won't forget us for a while.  Heck, we even paid the bill so I guess we can go back again tomorrow...

Tomorrow Team USA will be at full strength with the arrival of Adele and Roger.  With measurement complete, we'll register at 9AM and launch at 10AM to get a few hours in before the practice racing begins after lunch.  Our sailors are getting really excited about competing with the best the UK has to offer... but for now it's past curfew.

Thanks for checking in with us.  More tomorrow as British Nationals officially begins with opening ceremonies and hundreds of Optis ready to hit the line.