Peter Holmberg is in the lead in Marseille after the first day

Beautiful weather today in Marseille where the wind was there for the first flights of the 4th MIMR. Between 15 and 20 knots S-SW, with a heavy swell in the morning which fell off slightly in the afternoon.

30 matchs – 10 flights – were raced today. Most of them were extremely close, with the umpires intervening a lot and contact between boats frequent... In other words, sport! But with this quality of crews racing, this was to be expected throughout the 4 days of the regatta.

Today's weather conditions (wind and rough seas) were very demanding on teh teams during manouvres and in tactical terms.

Following in his Alinghi team-mate Ed Baird's footsteps, Peter Holmberg dominated the first day of the Round Robin by winning all his matches.

He is neck in neck with Philippe Presti in the provisional results, but is the only skipper to not have been beaten today. But it's hard to compare when you remember that Staffan Lindberg and Sébastien Col have only raced four matches.

The four French skippers in the regatta did fairly well during today's 10 flights. Philippe Presti is in the lead with 5 points from 7 matchs, closely followed by Dimitri Deruelle who surprised everyone with 4 points from 7 matches. Mathieu Richard got 50% by winning 3 matches out of 6 (just like the Russian Eugeny Neugodnikov) et Sébastien Col started off well with 3 matches out of 4 won.

The Italians Paolo Cian and Matteo Simoncelli have not been faring as well in the beginning of the Round Robin. The former has won 2 matches out of six he has raced, the latter lost all his matches.

At the bottom of the provisional table, we can also find Jes Gram-Hansen (2points / 7 matches) and Staffan Lindberg (1/4).