Skandia Sail for Gold - Capsizes and burning rain -Welcome to Weymouth



1:26 PM Wed 11 Aug 2010 GMT
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Skandia Sail for Gold, update from Campbell Sailing: We've been here nearly a week and Weymouth hasn't fully come up to its reputation until today. There's been sunshine and moderate air with little current. Yesterday, as the regatta opened, the breeze freshened to the teens and we saw significantly more clouds and current. During practice for instance we had two to three boat lengths per minute of current. Today we had closer to 10-12 boat lengths per minute (almost a knot), creating havoc in terms of sea-state and lay-lines. Anybody watching the racing live via GPS can certainly get a ...


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