News for RYA Volvo Youth National Championships and Trials 2009,Largs Sailing Club

Wednesday's Youth Nationals Blog

Wednesday

15.49 all boats are now in, no more racing for today

15.16 finishing silver fleet at the marks

15.15 2nd Gold Feelt radial race cancelled

15.13 AP / A for all

15.10 AP / A for everything except Radial Gold

15.07 Charlie course are on AP / A; 29ers on AP / H

 14.58 Silver fleet are coming in

14.52 Race 6 Sparks/Gratton, Palmer/Weaver, Rainback/Foskett, Wood/Foskett

14.52 Racing has been canned on Charlie

14.35 420 race 2 out of time and 2 dnf

14.20 Radial Silver start 2 boats OCS - Trotter and Leonard

14.16 Radial Gold all clear start

14.10 Four 29ers still to come in - they've spent a lot of time swimming.  The 29ers are struggling with the fickle east wind here - it is very very gusty

14.09 We had a nice lunch with HRH and are in the process of moving back into the Race Office.  At one time we thought we had moved out just for the royal handbag but in the end she did go in for abut 10 minutes!

14.06 General recall going to black flag for radials

14.04 Radial gold fleet started

13.59 the Jury are towing in tally 210 - we're not sure if it is the band or the boat!

13.32 29ers coming in too much wind

13.32 21 kts gusting 24 on alpha

13.28 420's up to the first beat

14.06 We're back

13.17 we having a short break for lunch with HRH - will resume at 14.00 - it is unlikely that there will be any racing in the meantime

13.12 Wind is still all over the place, no courses have been set yet

13.11 Liv held the door open for HRH!!

12.55 Will Hackney is being towed back with a broken mast and gone out again

12.48 29ers are launching; the wind is all over the place and up one minute, down the next

12.26 10-15kts and very shifty

12.21 D flag about to be launched for Radials

12.18 Wind is looking as if it is dropping fast

12.07 420's are all launched

11.51 D flag for Lasers and 420

11.42 Safety boat crews to go afloat

11.40 Expecting 420's and Lasers to be released at 11.45 and 29ers probably at midday, Radials probably at 12.20

11.39 Committee boats are going afloat now

11.35 She's now having a tour of the dinghy park

11.29 She's here, the wind is dropping but everyone is being introduced at the moment

11.21 The pipers have started to play, she is on her way

11.16 The caravan has stopped rocking now, they are much more comfortable in the bridge now

11.13 sea state has calmed down

11.10 HRH is due to arrive any moment now

11.09 20 knots on Alpha

 11.08 8 knots on Charlie

11.07 20 knots, gusting 23 on Bravo

11.06 the wind appears to be dropping off

10.31 The pipers have arrived, there is still no chance of sailing - we  had a gust of 41kts!

10.30 They've just had to tie the beach caravan down!

10.18 Security have arrived - black's the in colour!

10.16 We have now been kicked out of the race office!! It is very noisy and drafty here

09.53 Plan B for HRH is in operation!

09.52 We are just about to post an indefinite postpontement - 26/28 Kts on alpha gusts of 38

09.49 The bridge caravan is rocking

09.47 24kts gusting 36!

09.36 Report from Laser/420 course is that it is very lumpy and very windy

09.24 25kts, gusting 33!

09.00 20 kts and white horses!

08.23 The plan of action for today is for all to start at 11.00 except  the windsurfers who will have a 2 hour postponement.  29ers will do 3 races and the windsurfers will go after them

08.06 The radial fleet has been split into Gold and Silver. Wind is looking variable 0 to 25kts!!

08.02 Today we have Royal company - HRH The Princess Royal is coming.  We are having to close the race office at 10.00 so she has somewhere to eat and change.  We have yet to work out how we are supposed to do the results, the blog etc during this period. We may go offline for a bit but we will do our best to keep things running!