Gold Pokal 2008 - We placed 7th out of 66 boats

It's all over and we made the highest finish of any American, sorry Svend, had to be done. Mike and I set out with lofty goals of being in the top 10... mission accomplished. We stayed at the yacht club until 3 this morning. Bjorn found his way up onto a table and sang a song then proceeded to fall on his ass getting down. But I digress, He thinks it should be phrased, "a gracefulm descent to the ground inspired from skijumping where it´s called a Telemark-landing." He's a bit out of sorts this morning. We took a cab from the club and ended up at McDonald's. I'm not proud of this, but a Big Mac at 4 in the morning was all right. Our cab driver, Andrew was laughing at us the whole time. Somehow, these little Kung Fu Panda toys ended up in my pocket. I have so many pictures but no way to upload them until I get home, but rest assured, one by one, there will be material for stories for months to come. I'm especially proud of the Christoph Nielsen and Torbin pictures I have. They were asking me if they would be mentioned in the blog.... he he he, I think so. Those guys sailed and amazing regatta. Their boat "Chikita" is this ugly yellow boat with a bottom that is smoother than anything Sean Svendsen has ever done to his Knarr. He wants to bring and maybe sell it, but I think 30,000 Euros might be a little too much for a boat built before 1980. There are so many people that want to bring boats and Iäve laid out this plan for them. Get a good hull and a good mast and build everything else from there cheap and bring this boat to sell for no more than 30,000 US dollars and I think then we will get the boats and buyers that we need. Any comments?