Black Swan Racing in Russia for Sails of White Nights Cup



10:20 AM Wed 9 Jun 2010 GMT
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Black Swan Racing's Keith Swinton reports from St Petersburg. Today we arrived in St Petersburg, Russia for the ISAF grade 1 Sails of White Nights National Congress Cup. The regatta will be sailed on the three man 'Santa 760' yacht with an a-symmetrical spinnaker. These are difficult boats to sail as the hull shape is not optomised for great performance. The sailing area is a free flowing river refined by the shore on one side and a shipping channel on the other. Because of the many land influences the wind is shifty and quite unpredictable. 'Being an ISAF grade 1 ...


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