ISCYRA Eastern Hemisphere Championship at Yacht Club Adriaco - Day 1
by ISCYRA Press 2 May 2018 20:05 BST
2-5 May 2018
Yacht Club Adriaco Race Committee boat surrounded by the Star class boats waiting for the wind on day 1 of the ISCYRA Eastern Hemisphere Championship © Y.C.A. / Enrico Lucarelli
The debut of the Star Eastern Hemisphere Championship 2018, organized in Trieste by the Yacht Club Adriaco, is postponed until tomorrow. A truly capricious wind did not enable the Race Committee to start the first two races planned for today. 67 crews from 17 nations will have to wait until tomorrow.
Day 1 started with 26-knots Bora wind with gusts up to 30 knots that left the crews ashore. At 13:00 hours, when the first race was supposed to start, the Bora wind dropped, leaving the way to a west wind that unluckily did not blow over 4 knots. After waiting at sea for over three hours for a breeze that never came, the President of the Race Committee, Giancarlo Crevatin, had to cancel the races.
The first warning signal for tomorrow is at 11:00. According to the weather forecast, a light bora breeze is expected to blow in the morning and rise in the afternoon, reaching 18-20 knots. The Race Committee has planned to hold three races, in order to catch up at least one of those scheduled for today. The Star Eastern Hemisphere Championship 2018 is valid with 4 races completed. Hopefully, by Saturday (last day of racing) a fifth race will be held in order to allow the exclusion of the worst score in the final ranking.