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10.02.2010

A tough one to call

Simon Fisher (GBR) is an America’s Cup navigator with experience of Valencia as well as being a renowned ocean race navigator offshore. He was persuaded to give his view of the weather scenario facing the Race Committee today. His conclusion? …. “a tough one to call”


“ Up to the north there has been this strong north westerly flow, especially in the Ebro Valley last night and further south there is still a reasonable north westerly, but then this morning it has been easing off. And speaking to some of the sailors this morning they were saying that it has been dropping off quicker than they expected. And then the problem just now is a bubble of light winds around Valencia at the moment, in the middle of the plains.”
“ The worry just now is that the wind could go right round to the SE’ly by the middle of the afternoon. So by 3-4 o’clock in the afternoon, the worry is that could have gone all the way round.”
“So they could have to either start it in this NW’ly flow or otherwise wait for it to settle down from the SE.”
“ I would say the situation is pretty tricky. It is a very tough one to call.”

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