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Well l guess its still good China prep???

Posted 3 months, 4 days ago

Well l guess its still good China prep???
2 Days of scheduled racing have passed with no racing results. Actually the closet we have come to completing a race was yesterday when they fired a start off but there were so many boats over that it was a general recall and while trying to start again the breeze shut down. Today we were help ashore for an hour before the race committee decided to send us out there and see if the potential for a sea breeze would follow through allowing us to get race 1 away........ but no! As we tuned up in 4-5knts the breeze shut down to 0.0knts and we were sent back in to wait ashore. 2 hours later at 330pm we were sent back out, there was a little promise but again the breeze shut down and at 5pm we were allowed to tow in for the day.So no racing, but this is a very similar situation to what we have experienced in China, a really hard thing to do when the conditions are like this is to sit around for half the day in the heat and then fire up and switch to race mode when they eventually send you out there to race. We have had some god tuning sessions out there so are still learning a lot about the boat and even more importantly sailing in light air.Would love to be optimistic about tomorrow, unfortunately the forecast is worse than today's, but that doesn't always mean everything!Hamish and l wanted to say well done to Larry and the BMW Oracle boys at the Marseille TP52 event where they are having a strong performance in the breezy conditions. At least someone is getting some racing!! HERE is a link to that event. Full Story »

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