First day of racing

After arriving and settling down to Residence Maeva and a day of training and a practice race, today will be the first day of the worlds racing. The practice race started well with a good start and there was some really close racing all the way to the first windward mark. On the first beat there were a few broken haliyards ans other problems which spread out the fleet a lot. Downwind manouevres were good but the constantly wet spinnaker causes its ow nchallenges. Some geniuses had brought it all the way to the hotel and tried to dry it on the ping pong table of the common area.. The sea was rather choppy windds from 17 to 20 knots and we were hitting almost 12 knots downwind with the kite up during some really nice surfs! The forecast for today is strong winds and there is still little uncertainty whether they will send us out at all. Sam just opened the curtains and it looks pretty damn windy already. The organisers will provide us GPS trackers so anyone will be able to follow races live online, www.sywoc.org.

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Racing for today was postponed for a few hours, they’ll announce in fifteen minutes if we’re going out or not. Does not look very good, the winds only picked up during the day.Now waiting at the sailing club bistro. France just lost against the New Zealand in rugby world cup, too bad.

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