Youth Sailing World Championships: Big decisions to be made on Day 2

With strong tides and current of up to 2 knots across the five race course areas, judging time on distance at the start, and working out the laylines at the edge of the course, there’s some difficult decision-making involved.

Today’s weather is a mixed bag. Local weather expert Fritz Buyl predicts: “Cloudy with risk of some fog patches at first. Gradually enlarging breaks during the morning. Sunny spells in the afternoon. Moderate, later good visibility.”

With just 5 to 8 knots of wind expected up to midday, building in the early afternoon to 7 to 10 knots, there could be a delay for some of the classes this morning. The best breeze of 8 to 12 knots isn’t expected until 1600 hours, so does that mean this evening’s event – the Bingo Competition – will have to be sacrificed to the wind gods? Big decisions at stake…

There are five course areas, with four of the five courses getting into racing at 1100 hours this morning:

• Course A – at 1100 hours, two races for the Female Two Person Dinghy (420) fleet, followed by the Male/Mixed 420 fleet at 1430
• Course B – at 1100 hours, three races for Skiff Female (29er) followed by three races for Skiff Male at 1430
• Course C – at 1100 hours, two races for the Female fleets (ILCA 6 class), followed by the One Person Dinghy Male at 1110, then three races for Multihull Mixed (Nacra 15 class) at 1400
• Course D – at 1400 hours, four races for Windsurfing Female (Youth iQFOiL) followed by four races for Windsurfing Male at 1410.
• Course E – at 1400 hours, four races for Kiteboarding Female (FormulaKite) followed by Kiteboarding Male at 1410.

Every boat and board is carrying a GPS tracking unit supplied by TracTrac, which means you can watch all the racing live on SAP Sailing Analytics: https://youthworlds2022.sapsailing.com

written by Andy Rice, event reporter for World Sailing