470 Worlds Underway

La Rochelle, France (August 1, 2013) – Starts at opposite ends of the day for the Junior Worlds and Masters’ Cup fleets in La Rochelle, with the junior fleets benefiting from the early morning breeze, and a more sedate start for the Masters in the afternoon. After yesterday’s racing was called off due to lack of wind, the Race Committee made the call to take advantage of the morning breeze to get back on schedule and it was an early start for the 470 Junior Worlds fleets with the women up on the race track and underway at 0930 hours.

Following the women round the track, were the men’s gold fleet and then silver. Clean starts for the opening races of the day, before the wind dropped and changed direction, becoming shifty and unstable.

Orhan Tuker (TUR), 470 Class Course Representative for the 470 Junior Worlds is responsible to oversee the racing for the Junior Worlds, “We needed to get back ourselves back on track today, so with a forecast of breeze in the morning got racing underway at 0930. We completed the races as planned. It was a challenging day to get the last two races underway in the light and shifting wind, but we have a great race management team here who delivered a fair day’s racing.”

The wind out on the race track at 0930 hours was a stable 12-13 knot breeze, with the wind decreasing to about 6-7 knots for the final two races. The Masters’ Cup and Open Classic fleets took to the water for their scheduled start at 1400 hours.

Racing for all fleets is scheduled to get underway at 1400 hours on Friday 2 August 2013. The Juniors Worlds men fleet are scheduled to have three races, the Junior Worlds women two races, with the top eight on the leaderboard after Friday’s racing advancing to the Medal Race on Saturday. The 470 Masters’ Cup and Open Classic fleets are scheduled to hold 3 races to complete their events.

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