Juan Pablo Cardozo of Argentina won the U-21 Standard Men’s championship, and also the U-19 award. Wiktoria Golebiowska of Poland won the U-21 Radial Women’s championship. It was a difficult week, for the sailors and for race committee. After five days, only two races had been scored, with a minimum of four races to award
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(Split, Croatia) Much like yesterday, everyone was up bright and early. Sailors were rigging boats before 0700 and race committee left the harbor by 0730 for the 0900 first signal. Golf flag was lowered at 0750 and sailors gathered in the starting area by 0830. Sunny skies and good breeze out of the northeast. The
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A promising start to a short lived morning of racing. Golf flag was lowered at 0750 and sailors began launching for a 0900 start time. The Women’s fleet, which hadn’t yet completed a race, started cleanly on the first attempt under cloudy skies and eight to ten knots out of the northeast, similar to yesterday.
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Finally! Some racing! But just some. The fleets left the harbor at 0830 as the northeasterly breeze was beginning to build. By 1000, the scheduled start time for today, the wind was six to eight knots on course area Bravo, just outside of the harbor. Both of the Men’s fleets (Yellow and Blue) had clean
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(Split, Croatia) Race committee left the harbor at 1030, on schedule, and spent the day watching and waiting. The light easterly breeze in the morning faded, as forecast, but the haze never burned off and the westerly thermal never filled in. The sailors stayed on shore, rigged and waiting, until RC called it for the
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The forecast held true – sunny and warm and very little wind. No gradiant, but hope for a thermal fill from the West in the afternoon. To be able to best advantage if the wind did build, the fleets were released from shore at 1130 to an on-the-water postponement. Signs of the fill began to
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Split, Croatia The 2019 Laser Under-21 World Championships begin here tomorrow in this beautiful city on the Adriatic Sea. The host, Sailing Club Mornar, has put everything in place for a great event, and the weather has been sunny and warm for the many sailors who arrived early to practice. But the winds have been
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Tentative winds out of the East, but racing still happened. The Standard fleets sailed out earlier than usual for at 1000h first signal. They completed both of the scheduled two races in 5-7 knots. The G-flag for the Radials dropped at 1100h and they were out to the starting area by noon. All of the
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Another good day on the water with two races for all fleets. These were races 9 & 10 for the event, except for the Standard GM/GGM fleets, which are lagging by one race. The wind held steady out of the North at 10 knots, on average, but there were short-lived fluctuations to the left and
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A good day to race sailboats in Zeeland! A bit cloudy in the morning, with 8-10 knots out of the SW. The skies cleared in the afternoon and the wind built to the mid-teens. All fleets sailed the two races scheduled for the day and were off the water before 1700. The Standard fleets were the
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Two more races (R5 & R6) sailed for all fleets except GM/GGM, which has sailed up through R5. Overally, the regatta is on schedule and sailors will be using the reserve day to rest up – no sailing tomorrow. The forecast for light air this morning held true, with an on-the-water postponement before the Radial
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All Standard and Radial fleets completed Races 3 & 4 on Day 2 of the Laser Masters World Championships, held in Port Zélande, Netherlands. Completing Race 4 makes the event a Championship, and allows for one discarded score. The two classes are racing on a single course with staged start times. Today, the Standards started
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Rain and clouds in the morning gave way to sunny skies and 10-15 knot winds for the first day of the 2019 Laser Masters Worlds in Port Zélande, Netherlands. All fleets completed the scheduled two races. Provisional results are available on the event website here: http://2019-masters.laser-worlds.com/race-results/
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Good wind, and some rain, for the practice race at Port Zélande, Netherlands. Racing starts tomorrow (Sunday). But more importantly, good food, good drink, & good friends….
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A total of 306 sailors from 27 countries are registered for the 2019 Laser Masters Worlds, held in Port Zélande, Netherlands. Boats and sailors have been arriving over the past several days, but many more arrived today, the first day of three days of registration and equipment measurement, concluding with a practice race and opening
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Kingston, Ontario, Canada Although the two World Champions had already been determined coming into the final day of racing, there was still a lot on the line for some of the competitors, and race committee made a determined effort to get in one more race. The trouble is, nature wasn’t cooperating. The forecast was for
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