LOVELY IN LONDON

While not quite sunny Southern California, the weather in London for the quick stopover on the way back from the USA (to Valencia) was autumn at its best. Sunny and warm, you would have thought it was early September not mid-November. Could not have been nicer, nor the two events attended....

Tuesday evening was the Royal Thames YC annual prizewinners' dinner at which I was guest speaker (there will be a post shortly on the team blog). Wednesday noon was a small media luncheon, nicely hosted by BMW UK-Ireland, to brief some few Brit journos on the 32nd AC and our team. There is a good story from the latter here.



Jim O'Donnell, Managing Director of BMW UK-
Ireland at the RTYC dinner Tuesday evening.
Jim and his team have partnered with Royal
Thames, and by all appearances it has been
a very successful engagement for both.



After-dinner guest speaker with an update on AC 32
and BMW ORACLE Racing.



Long time NYYC friend David Anderson, and a shipmate on
George Carmany's NY40 Hornet, is living in London with his
wife and kids. He joined me Wed morn at the Royal Thames
for a quick catch-up over breakfast, and checked out the BMW
M6 on display in front of the Knightsbridge clubhouse.



Another friend from way back, Malcolm McKeag, is the Chief
Sailing Officer at the Royal Thames and has been now for the
past 7 or 8 years. Malcolm organized the dinner and luncheon,
both of which were very successful.