Day one of Racing today at Kiel Week

Kiel Week is a Eurosaf Regatta in Germany. It is an international event that we are using as a warm-up for the Europeans. We start racing at noon today. There are 15 boats in our fleet (49er FX). Many of whom we havn't sailed against yet, including all the Aussies, the team from Singapore, and Ireland.

Saskia Tidey is on the Irish team, she sailed on the opposing women's Aussie 18 in the JJ Giltinan (Aussie 18 Worlds), so it will be fun to race against her again! The Singapore team practiced with us in light air - they are fast, but they are light, so look for them to be good in light air, but slow in the breeze. I expect most of the Aussie teams to be good.

The forecast for the event is medium, with more wind later in the week. Here's the link to the regatta website where you can find results, and there is a Live Center which will have video and maybe some tracking of our races.

http://www.kieler-woche.de/english/

Here's the forecast:

Saturday, Jun 22								Sunday, Jun 23
Local time	02h	05h	08h	11h	14h	17h	20h	23h	02h	05h	08h	11h	14h	17h	20h	23h
Wind direction
Wind speed (kts)	19	17	16	14	14	8	9	11	12	13	16	14	14	13	11	11
Wind gusts (kts)	31	27	22	20	19	14	17	19	20	22	21	20	20	19	17	16
Cloud cover
Precipitation (mm/3h)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Air pressure (hPa)	1010	1011	1011	1012	1012	1010	1010	1009	1009	1008	1008	1008	1009	1009	1010	1011
Air temperature (°C)	15	14	15	16	17	18	17	16	15	14	15	15	16	17	15	14

Local date	Monday, Jun 24								Tuesday, Jun 25
Local time	02h	05h	08h	11h	14h	17h	20h	23h	02h	05h	08h	11h	14h	17h	20h	23h
Wind direction
Wind speed (kts)	13	13	13	12	12	12	13	12	12	12	12	14	15	14	13	13
Wind gusts (kts)	19	19	16	15	15	16	17	17	16	16	14	16	17	16	15	16
Cloud cover
Precipitation (mm/3h)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Air pressure (hPa)	1011	1011	1012	1014	1014	1014	1015	1017	1017	1017	1019	1019	1020	1021	1022	1023
Air temperature (°C)	13	12	13	14	15	16	15	13	13	13	14	15	16	16	15	13

Local date	Wednesday, Jun 26								Thursday, Jun 27
Local time	02h	05h	08h	11h	14h	17h	20h	23h	02h	05h	08h	11h	14h	17h	20h	23h
Wind direction
Wind speed (kts)	12	12	13	13	13	14	13	15	12	12	11	10	9	8	8	10
Wind gusts (kts)	16	14	15	14	15	16	15	19	16	16	13	12	11	9	8	10
Cloud cover
Precipitation (mm/3h)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Air pressure (hPa)	1023	1024	1024	1025	1025	1025	1026	1026	1027	1026	1027	1027	1027	1026	1026	1026
Air temperature (°C)	12	11	12	13	14	14	14	12	11	11	13	14	16	17	16	14