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Genuine Risk Photo: Rolex/Daniel Foster |
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JELIK 5 Photo: Rolex/Daniel Forster |
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Red Kite II Photo: Rolex/Daniel Forster |
"This is going to be great for the race fleet as they head down the track towards Subic Bay. The wind will be on the beam, or just after the beam, which is a great point of sail, and so the boats, after a fairly frustrating day yesterday, will certainly be starting to accelerate.
"The back of the fleet will benefit first from the wind while the front of the fleet will unfortunately get it last. The advantage is that for the front of the fleet the wind will be further after the beam and therefore will hopefully produce slightly faster boat speed… although not necessarily much wind speed. The boats with asymmetric sails –Genuine Risk, the TP52s and the Hot 40s, like Ambush and Sell Side Dream– will be loving these conditions.”
Frederick Peter Churchouse onboard Moonblue 2 gave a rundown on current conditions (1700 hrs, UTC +8):
“We’ve got some wind at last for the first time during the race. It’s blowing about 12-13 knots with beautiful conditions; flat sea and the sun is shining. According to the radio scheds there are certainly a lot of boats within 10 or 15 miles of us, not quite within viewing distance, but we were close to Redeye this morning. Given that we had such bad winds the first 36-40 hours, and if this wind keeps up, at the very earliest we could arrive late on Saturday night or early Sunday morning, but there’s still a long way to go and the weather forecasts still show some patches of very light air.”
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