Eric Monnin: First day of Bermuda Gold Cup 2006

After 2 Flights in Group A the fleet got caught in a thunderstorm and a lightning was hitting some of the boats. The boat of James Spithill was most damaged with a hole in the bow (the charge went down the forestay and crossed the hull there) and some burned wood below the maststep. After the weather normalized our group B had 5 flights.
We were able to win three of them. Against Torvar Mirsky and Paula Lewin we could take a lead at the start and extending it. The Match against Blythe Walker was very close with a small advantage for us from the beginning to the end of the match.
A bad timing at the start was the reason of loosing against Alvaro Marinho.
The start against Mathieu Richard was very close as we were both over the line but he was on the right side after coming back to the line.
Surprising was the days result of Jes Gram-Hansen with 1 win and 4 losses.
We will face him tomorrow morning.
A win against him or in the next match against Ian Wiliams should allow us to pass into the quarter finals.

Best regards
Team Monnin