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SA's Day Two at Volvo Youth Sailing

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SA's Day Two at Volvo Youth Sailing
http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/11b202a5671e6647 wwww.Sail-Search.com: This report from the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship in Århus, Denmark by SA Team Manager, Colin Whitehead: Day two brought much more wind that was expected much to Matt and Michaels delight but not to Claire's liking. The swell was up which made for some great surfing conditions in all the fleets. Claire hung in again without capsizing and produced similar results to yesterday, tough conditions for her weight. Rudi had a great start to the day with a 13th place coming from a well positioned start. The wind across the laser course was pretty steady at 15-18 knots south with occasional shift to the right at 20 knots. On the 29er and Multihull course it was all on again with steady 15 to 18 knot breeze and occasional switches, unfortunately I had no visual on the course and was being fed information from back home via sms while Tracy tracked the race on www.sportcasting.org/home/ - isn't technology great. Taariq and Neil had a great day with some awesome surfing and close calls – producing excellent results 8, 5, 4 – going faster and faster. Matt and Michael were firing on all cylinders and came out of the starting blocks like rockets, 1st race they led the whole race and produced a win for SA and on the 2nd were chasing GBR for the whole race and finished 2nd. The boys and girl of South Africa did "good" today and everyone is having a great time, wish I was 16 again!!!! The event is well organized and it is great to have our youngsters getting the valuable experience at such a high quality and highly contested event. Full Story »

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