SAP 505 World Championships - Racing blown out day 2



3:05 AM Sun 27 Mar 2011 GMT
'2011 SAP 505 World Championship' Christophe Favreau ?
SAP 505 World Championship Day 2, Hamilton Island, Queensland. Just 15 minutes before today?s scheduled start time Principal Race Officer Kevin Wilson told Sail-World.com 'I have just called racing off for today. 'We have south east winds averaging mid 20?s, we have seas of a couple of metres and we have building wind and building seas. We have been having rain squalls every half hour. 'With the racing needing to have started a couple of miles off Cats Eye in these conditions we just could not administer our duty of care under these conditions. 'It could be another strong wind ...


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