www.Sail-Search.com: Team Isigungu, South Africa's Olympic Entrants in the Yngling class sent this report through:

Yesterday was Penny’s birthday, but not too many chances to celebrate as we had a busy day with 2 races out on E course.

We will make up for it after the Games though!

We started off first, ahead of the Finn fleet, on time at 13h00. There was about 8 – 10knots, from about 115 – 120 degrees. During the first race the wind died to 5 knots, but luckily the current wasn’t as strong as we’ve seen before and we were still able to make head way down wind.

We were still struggling with the last run of the first race and it could have been positioning or just pure lack of boat speed, but we went from 7th to 11th in the last run. Disappointing and frustrating.

We tried everything we could to make the adjustments, and to try and get the boat moving, but nothing worked.

On the second race, we felt good pressure out on the left of the course, a bit risky since ¾ of the fleet went right…. But it paid off in our favour and we rounded the top mark in 2nd. Dom sat on the weather side for a better feel and view, maybe this could have helped as we weren’t as slow downwind anymore. There was however a few more knots of pressure.

We are also now trying to lay the mast further forward as this is what the rest of the fleet is doing and it seems to be faster…

2 more races today… give it horns!