Racing resumed today in very light and fluky conditions. Sailors went out on the water around 10:30 AM and waited for wind until 11:30 AM or so. They all came back on shore and went out again around 1:30 PM without racing. Wind is around 4-5 knots and very shifty. Luck of the draw... As I write this blog at 6:20 PM, the sailors completed race # 7 and they are still out on the water trying to complete the race # 8. Weather in Napier is not cooperating!!! Tomorrow's forecast is for very strong winds and bad weather.
In a very long day (9 hours on the water), the RC only ran 2 races... I have not seen an RC try so hard to run races in very fluky conditions where they should have called the day off. For reasons most people cannot understand, the RC is running very very questionable races in only 4-5 knots of breeze with 30-40 degree shifts. Again most of the good sailors had bad results while tiny kids had good results...
After 8 races (which sadly include only 3 good races in 4 days of racing!!!), Reece is 113th, Julien 157th, Andrew is 190th, Derin is 192nd and Doug is 193rd.
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