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Cowes Week, Day 3
August 5, 2013
Weather predictions were rather off. First it was expected to blow very hard during the night, but later the front was expected to pass during the early afternoon. When we went out with a nice south south-westerly wind blowing at about 12 tot 18 knots. The wind was shifting all the time and it was […]
Post by Boj | August 5, 2013 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
Cowes Week, day 4
August 6, 2013
Due to the lack of steady wind today, the start of our race was postponed, postponed even more, then the starting line was replaced eastward in order to get more wind from the seabreeze. Just when we thought the wind picked up and we had a steady 7 to 8 knots of breeze, the race […]
Post by Harry Heijst | August 6, 2013 | Comments Off on Cowes Week, day 4 | Comments RSS
Cowes Week, day 5
August 7, 2013
The weather predictions were not te be trusted, they said and wrote themselves, and blamed the French for the rain which was expected. There was no rain, we had 10-14 knots of wind and even enjoyed the sun, thank you France! Today we had a committee boat start which brought us East on the Solent. We […]
Post by Joost Heikens | August 7, 2013 | Comments Off on Cowes Week, day 5 | Comments RSS