After a week with two excellent fundraisers where more than 250 people contributed over $40,000 to our Olympic campaign, Andy hopped a flight back to Valencia and Vince Brun arrived in Miami to sail the Commodore's Cup with me. Every now and then you get one of those perfect days for yacht racing on Biscayne Bay, this weekend we had two. We had sunny skies, warm water, and 12-15 knots out of the east and to top it all off, beautiful sunsets under a nearly full moon. The Bay was full of boats with Etchels racing on Saturday and a PHRF regatta on Sunday and Yngling and 470's out training but the Stars took center stage.

Hello from Miami,

We are here getting ready for our second fundraiser in as many days. I just stepped off the airplane from Burlington where we had a great event last night. Nearly 200 people came out to support us. It was a great night. I’ve received nothing but positive feedback.

Going into the final day needed to finish ahead of the French and put a boat between us and Brazil to finish second in the regatta. Hamish Pepper from New Zealand had ten points on us so we needed him to make a mistake to have a realistic shot at passing him. Our plan was to sail for a top five result focusing on the two boats closest to us and shoot for second.

It was another tricky day on San Francisco Bay with light winds and shifty conditions. Today we decided it was worth starting at the pin because it was fifteen degrees favored. We were the second boat from the pin, just over fellow America’s Cup (Luna Rosa) teammate Torben Grail (BRA). We paced the Athens Gold Medalist for five minutes before tacking out to the right.

Well there is not a lot to say about a day where the wind was shifting more then 30 degrees and never seemed to go your way. At points during the race we were both hiking out to leeward to try to get the boat moving in no wind and on the last weather leg to the finish, our best route included a trip THROUGH the defunct Berkley Pier. All we can say is that we are re-setting for tomorrow and promise to attack with renewed vigor. Off to bed!