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Report Day 2 - Tuesday

by Graham Smith

No Racing on Day 2 - Tuesday

No racing was possible on Day 2 of the Etchells World Championship at HYC due to adverse weather conditions.

After a 3 hour delay because of heavy NW'ly winds the 42 boat fleet prepared for a 1600 hr start when the winds eased sufficiently. However, constant wind shifts caused problems for PRO David Lovegrove and his team and the first scheduled start had to be aborted a minute before the gun because of a significant wind shift.

A 15 minute postponement followed and then a heavy rain shower, which reduced visibility dramatically, prevented a start before 1700 hrs.

However, with wind dropping - only 5 kts recorded at the windward mark - and with constant wind shifts, it was decided that racing could not continue.

The race programme has two races scheduled for Wednesday 25th.

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