Well at long last the first race day has arrived, wet and windy!
Having got to the boat park nice and early, the race Committee announced a two hour postponement as they were recording 27 knots out on the race course. Both the windguru and winfinder forecasts were predicting the win to drop by mid day to almost nothing before filling back in at around 15-18 knots and is exactly what it did!
At 11:30 the H flag was lowered and the fleet launched in very little wind and sail to their respective race course, North for the Boys and South for the girls, plus the boys green flight. Many of the sailors needed towing to the start.
The yellow flight got away first time on a P flag as the breeze slowly built though the afternoon and the Workum chop slowly built to just over 1m. So an ideal start for the bigger sailors that are here.
The other flights were not so lucky and ended up with numerous general recalls.
All the boys flights are on trackers so you can watch the racing, but for some reason the trackers were not giving accurate data and boats would be flying up and down the course as their data was tracked.
The races were relatively short lasting around 47 minutes for the leaders. We did hear that the girls course was a bit strange with the first beat only last 7 minutes! No doubt this will be sorted by today.
A couple of GBR sailors picked up black flags, I think we had one bent top mast but other than that I think most returned to shore happy with their first days racing. The coaches then set about their debriefs so the sailors could earn from what they saw on the water.
The entire fleet is re-flighted each evening, so you will need to check today’s flights if you are watching online.
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