18ft Skiffs: JJ Giltinan Trophy - Live Racing and commentary - Day 4 -Race 3
by Richard Gladwell 9 Mar 2022 00:02 GMT
6 March 2022
Racing cancelled on day 3 of the JJ Giltinan 18ft World Championships © Frank Quealey
The Livestream coverage of Race 3 in the JJ Giltinan starts at 2:20pm (Sydney time) as it does every race day, and the commentary starts at 2:30 featuring Andrew Buckland, Peter Shipway and Jim Bury from the SailMedia team, who are on the water and following the action. Race 3 is expected to start at 3.30pm local time.
For today, Wednesday, strong southerlies, gusting to 30kts are forecast by Predictwind around the start of racing at 3.30pm. Winds are expected to be fresh but ease slightly for the rest of the week.
They will sail the shortened Storm Course.
Current series leader is Andoo (Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton) who has won both completed races, with Tech2 in second overall and Noakesailing lying third overall.
The Race schedule is as follows - all race coverage starts at the same time 2.20pm each race day, unless otherwise advised.
- Race 1 Saturday - Completed
- Race 2 Sunday - Completed
- Layday Monday
- Race 3 and 4 Tuesday - all races abandoned
- Race 3 Wednesday
- Race 7 Thursday
- Layday Friday
- Race 8 Saturday
- Race 9 Sunday