Optimist Asian Championship - Back to fleet racing



7:21 AM Sat 10 Jul 2010 GMT
'Asian Optimist Championship' International Optimist Dinghy Association (IODA)
Optimist Asian Championship, Pattaya, Thailand. July 9th Today the Asian Championship went back to the scheduled fleet racing after the two days of team racing. The wind conditions did not look very promising as the fleet left the shore. The first race was held in light switching wind with a strong spring tide disturbing both race management and sailors. After the fleet struggled to complete the two flights of that race, they happily returned to the shore. As the sailors idled around on shore it did not look likely that there would be any further racing. However, to confound us ...


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