Wednesday 5th

Well here we are - back at the club for another race day. The team all enjoyed the lay-day and did better in the team racing than anyone had dared to hope for.

Sorry about the frequency of posts recently - been having major network issues at the club. Alan has good access from the Grand Continental, but everywhere else has been suffering, including the tracker which has now recovered rather well.

The good news is, there is WIND today!! And we mean real wind - not very powerful because of the heat, but at least the air is moving so the Oppies are going quite well. You'll be at least as up to date as us on results if you have been watching the tracker which also seems to have recovered rather well. If not, the Race 9 is complete and we had results ranging from low 20s to 50s [S 23, A 31, O 33, M 51, J 57]. Race 10 has also finished and the GBRs had a mixed bag of results - can't remember the positions we counted so won't try to guess, but will post when we can. Race 11 is just underway. Keeping everything crossed for the guys.

We had a great trip yesterday on the lay-day as ably documented by Alan's post last night. Graham has recovered from his virus - and no longer looks (quite so much) like a small monkey.  Will try and upload some pictures if the network holds up - but I don't want to push my luck. Will also try and get some good pics of the team members - keep an eye on the album - may be a long time before we can upload as the photos really do stress out limited network connectivity.

Ann and Graham went to the IODA reception last night which was a Thai meal with the hottest spicy food that either of us can recall. In the UK "Thai" food is quite mild compared to the Thai food here. Unfortunately the evening was a sit-down dinner which made it more difficult to get round to speak to lots of different people - but in Malaysia it is impolite to pass food around - so it's customary to sit down to eat.

Ann attended today's AGM session and we have conducted most of the voting. Graham will cover tomorrow's session.

Will post this now whilst I appear to have network and will try photos later.

Graham