Newport Bermuda Race - Conditions likely to determine winning crews



3:34 PM Thu 17 Jun 2010 GMT
'Ran-Rambler' Talbot Wilson Click Here to view large photo
Newport to Bermuda Race begins on Friday 18th June and navigators and tacticians are currently hunched over computers trying to get a sense of race conditions for the 47th start of the event. Today's forecast predicts a healthy sea breeze for the start. 'Everybody should blast out of here on an upwind leg,' says Bjorn Johnson, chairman of the Bermuda Race Organizing Committee. But then after a few hours, there's a good chance that the fleet will sail into a big high and wrestle with light westerlies. At least there's a 200-mile finger of favourable current parallel the rhumb line ...


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by Talbot Wilson/John Rousmaniere




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