Today saw a solid start for Skandia Team GBR, I am pleased to have the regatta underway now so that we can shake off any pre-regatta nerves and finally get into racing after a lot of preparation by the sailors and the team that support them on and off the water. Today’s conditions were quite tricky and shifty and as Nick Dempsey has said on his earlier blog, not very Weymouth like. However we are pleased that we have sailable conditions today, reflecting on last year where it was blowing 20 knots plus for a lot of the regatta and we spent quite a lot of time sitting ashore postponed.