Conditions Significantly Improved after Challenging Start to LO300



2:58 PM Sun 18 Jul 2010 GMT
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After a great start followed by a very challenging 6 to 8 hours of squalls and very unstable weather, a large percentage of the fleet is now past Cobourg heading towards Prince Edward County. This has been a fast and extremely tough race, with at 22:00 hrs. over 33 boats officially retired, and another 7 unconfirmed. Current reports however indicate that the weather has eased, and boats in the Cobourg area are seeing about 10 knots of wind on flattening seas. Some of the boats are now actually started to get concerned that they will run out of wind as ...


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by Lake Ontario 300 Committee




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