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As SThe third day of the regatta started with strong winds over 10 m/s and rather large waves. This made it difficult to start and many boats were over the line several times. The starting procedure had to be tried several times before they at last the fleet started under black flag at 1400 hours local time. All boats were clear according to the starting ship.

The afternoon also had some heavy rains and the waves were building up to four metres. Many boats had to quit and return to Sandhamn and some of them needed help to get back. One of the boats that had to break was the Swedish boat, Josefina crewed by Rolf NÜRNBERG, Pelle NÜRNBERG and Stefan KLÄRRE.

'We stopped sailing because the waves were to high for us,' said NÜRNBERG when they came back to Sandhamn, cold, wet but satisfied with their decision, 'We realized that we would never manage to set our spinnaker and then we might as well retire.'

Jan SÖDERLUND, the Swedish-American sailing on American boat Pearl of Aspen, also had to abandon yesterday after a collision with Rabalder.

' This really has not been our regatta,' said SÖDERLUND, writing a protest form at the Regatta Office, but it has been wonderful sailing.

Harald SCHMIDT, sailing with Arved VON GRÜNEWALD on the Swedish Lady Kristina, who also had to retire when their spinnaker broke. 'I am going to start playing schack instead,' he joked. 'It was absolutely disgusting out there. My cap let all the water coming in and it ran down my back all the time.'

There will probably be many protests after yesterday's race. Many of the boats that retired came in to ask for protest forms. Some smaller accidents have occurred but no big or serious damages were been reported.

The HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark was in the lead on all legs yesterday but on the very last leg he was beaten by Flawless. Prince Frederik ended second and is now on fifth overall. Third yesterday went to another Danish boat, African Queen, sailed by Jörgen SCHÖNHERR, who before the race held the overall lead. He is now second overall and still looks in a good position to challenge for his third Dragon Gold Cup in a row. Many of the Danish boats are close and right now it looks as if there will be a Danish victory this year too.

Pilen, sailed by Tompa LÖFSTEDT, who won the Swedish Championship last week, was the best Swedish boat yesterday.

The Swedish boat Lumme, sailed by Olle JOHANSSON and crew, is the best Swedish boat overall in tenth place. Denmark's My-Way was the best classic boat yesterday, finishing eighth to move to seven overall.

Top Ten After Three Races

Pos	Nation	Boat	Helm	Crew	Crew	R1	R2	R3	Pts
1	DEN	Flawless	Valdemar BANDOLOWSKI	Soren HVALSO	Carsten HEY	5.7	10	0	15.7
2	DEN	African Queen	Jorgen SCHÖNHERR	Anders KAEMPE	Axel WALDERSDORPH	0	11.7	5.7	17.4
3	DEN	Marion	Lars JENSEN	Truls TREDBERG	Patrik LINDEMAN	19	0	19	38
4	DEN	BB King	Lars HENDRIKSEN	Peter JOHANSEN	SCHMIDT	14	5.7	29	48.7
5	DEN	Nanoq	HRH Kronprins Frederik	Theis PALM	Kasper HARSBERG	22	25	3	50
6	SUI	Ariston	Harro KNIFFKA	Vincent HOESCH	Stefan HELLRIEGEL	10	19	24	53
7	DEN	MY-WAY	Frank BERG	Soren KAESTEL	Budde-LUND	26	15	13	54
8	GER	Roberto	Philipp OCKER	Florian GROSSER	Oliver DAVIES	15	26	20	61
9	SWE	Lumme	Olle Jo JOHANSSON	Patrik SALÈN	Staffan SALÈN	8	21	34	63
10	GER	Platoon	Harm MÜLLER SPREER	Markus WIESER	Thomas AURACHER	52	3	10	65