Day 9 Results - Jerzy in 5th Place!

The weather man was too optimistic again today but the task setting was conservative enough to compensate for it. There were no land-outs today in the Canadian Team. It felt great to just welcome our pilots back, pack up, go for dinner and then retire.

Jerzy was a bit down at the dinner table because he thought he had made a tactical mistake and lost precious time. The score showed him in 29th place for the day with 801 points. I am sure the problems with his Cambridge computer just before launch didn't help to put him into a good frame of mind.

We were overjoyed when we looked at the overall scores for the competition after dinner, to find Jerzy had actually moved up from 6th place to 5th place despite being a bit slow today.

Willem felt better today and completed the Open Class task.

Thanks for all your encouraging messages. Please keep them coming or post comments to the blog - I will relay them to the pilots. They help a lot to keep the spirits up as we go into the final stage of this race!