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European Speed Championships Day 3 |
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Wednesday, 04 November 2009 |
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Day three of the competition brought some action in the afternoon, after the race committee relocated the participants to a new venue a few kilometers away with a better angle to the wind.
Racing was started then at 14:00 hours, in very gusty and shifty winds variying from zero to 25 knots. Still the course was pretty broad and hte gusts usually never long enough to help the competitors over the complete course.
After 90 minutes the wind dropped completely, resulting in several rescue actions.
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European Speed Championships Day 2 |
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 |
A lot of action today, but unfortunately without any result. The wind was not as strong es it was forecasted, and the competition put on hold fairly early in the morning.
The wind came up around noon, but too westerly, or almost WNW, so that the preferred course along the sandbar was unsailable. The race committee tried to set a course further out in the bay, but due to the low tide there was nowhere enough space to place the course safely.
In the afternoon, with the upcoming water, the wind disappeared unfortunately, and competition was called of around 15:30 hours.
The forecast for tomorrow should give us some more possibilies, and strong winds forecasted for Thursday. Fingers crossed !
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European Speed Championships Day 1 |
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Monday, 02 November 2009 |
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A windless day welcomed the competirors at day one of the Speed Europeans in Dungarvan Ireland. After the mandatory skippersmeeting the competition was put on hold to see if the conditions improve, but it became clear quite fast that there wasnt anything to be expected for the day.
In expectation of the good conditions forecasted for the next three days the competitors were released early. Skippersmeeting will be at 0900 tomorrow, with the low tide at 1300 this gives a window of 6 hours for speedsailing along the sandbank.
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Thierry Bielak was holding the windsurfers 500m record from 1991-2004.
