Day 9 is underway.

Its 30.1 degrees here in beautiful Omarama with only high cloud to shield us from the blazing sun. Westerly wind has just started to pick up from a still afternoon). The task has been set with a Westerly in mind.

You can see the tasks by looking at Lex's scoring website. No scores yet obviously but the task is shown.

This morning was declared National Club Class day and therefore was First in the prizegiving and first on the Task Briefing and launched in front of the Open/18mtr class.

At the weather briefing Lemmy suggested that tomorrow might be rain-so we are making the most of today and hoping that like previous forecasts that there is an element of change coming.

The SAR fund is growing and we have nearly $1000 raised. Its very good having Sheriff Theo standing large and insistant at morning briefings. We had Steve from the local SAR team pop by this afternoon and give us an update on what they are doing and what equipment they used and how it was used. Needless to say they have very limited fundraising opportunities (the last fundraising event they had was 2 years ago).

In the time I have taken to write this blog some "fluffies" have started to appear and so has Ivan Evans who is waiting for me to finish the blog so he can read it.

its now 4:02pm