The only two active teams in Valencia are waisting no time and try to take advantage of any single day with appropriate wind conditions in order to train.

It's seems that the Desafío Español and United Internet Team Germany have started training together in the last few days. Unfortunately, October's weather is proving to be very difficult, unlike 2005 and 2006 when teams were able to train 20-22 days throughout the whole month.

As both teams use the boats from the 32nd edition of the event (GER 89 for the Germans and ESP 97 for the Spanish), the only real difference is the new faces onboard the two yachts.

On the Spanish boat, the big difference is obviously the absence of helmsman Karol Jablonski and the presence of Paul Cayard in his place. Cayard has stated he would be the main helmsman of the Spanish challenger during the development phase of the team.

Jablonski didn't have to go very far when he left the green team since he's now the helmsman of the German boat. Another "refugee" from the Spanish team that joined Jablonski was Danish Mikkel Rossberg.

Valencia Sailing also spotted two familiar faces from Shosholoza, German Tim Kröger and South African Marc Lagesse. The former was the boat captain of the South African challenger while the latter was its navigator.

The German team will make an official presentation of its team in November.