Laser Radial World Championships - Frustrating day

10:51 PM Tue 13 Jul 2010 GMT

'A lone Finnish laser left abandoned drifting awaiting the wind.

Penultimate days of racing was cancelled after lack of wind at the Laser Radial World Championships taking place at Largs, Scotland GBR.' Marc Turner /RYA - copyright Click Here to view large photo

Laser Radial World Championships. More than five hours of frustrating drifting on the Clyde off Largs today proved to be in vain for the sailors awaiting racing at the Laser Radial World Championships. The mirror like waters were only occasionally ruffled by light airs from conflicting directions, and only - as the race officers' version of Murphy's Law would have it - as the appropriate signals were made, was there anything close to a breeze. Sari Multala, Finland's defending world champion goes into the final day of scheduled racing with a lead of seven points over Marit Bouwmeester (NED). It ...

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