Thursday, 12 July 2007
Preparations for This Weekend St Malo Race
Once again the Fastnet Teams are trickling in to Shamrock and the marina is a hive of activity with grey and orange shirts carting trolley loads of food and sails and spares down to the boats. The skippers are watching eagle eyed to make sure that we don't carry on anything more than what we really need, in order to keep weight down!!
It looks like it will be a great race, starting off, fairly similarly to the Jersey race a few weekends ago, with 20 knots of Southerly breeze forecast... Once again a beat to windward. Hopefully the wind will swing round to the SW and then W later on and we should have a great reach down to St Malo from Les Hanois. There might even be a little sunshine too!!
The teams are examining the tides and working out their tactics and with some great results behind us so far, once again it is all to play for!!
Good luck to all the teams. It's now time for me to start getting very excited!!
Once again the Fastnet Teams are trickling in to Shamrock and the marina is a hive of activity with grey and orange shirts carting trolley loads of food and sails and spares down to the boats. The skippers are watching eagle eyed to make sure that we don't carry on anything more than what we really need, in order to keep weight down!!
It looks like it will be a great race, starting off, fairly similarly to the Jersey race a few weekends ago, with 20 knots of Southerly breeze forecast... Once again a beat to windward. Hopefully the wind will swing round to the SW and then W later on and we should have a great reach down to St Malo from Les Hanois. There might even be a little sunshine too!!
The teams are examining the tides and working out their tactics and with some great results behind us so far, once again it is all to play for!!
Good luck to all the teams. It's now time for me to start getting very excited!!
posted by Sailing Logic at 4:03 PM
