Racing at the Star Class 96th Bacardi Cup was abandoned on Tuesday, March 7, due to an inconsistent breeze.
After a postponement ashore, the Race Committee was hopeful racing would get underway, but ultimately the decision was taken to abandon racing.
As reported earlier, Irish 2008 Olympic keelboat duo Peter O'Leary and Stephen Milne have renewed their partnership for a bid at the Cup that runs until March 11th.
Inconsistent breeze forces race abandonment on day two at the 96th Bacardi Cup; “The weather forecast was for the breeze to fill in somewhere between 2 to 3 o’clock out of the southeast,” explained Carl Schellbach, Principal Race Officer. “The breeze finally made it and was doing battle with what might have been the sea breeze here. However, the Race Committee didn’t think it was going to offer quality sailing until very late this afternoon and, even then, it was still in doubt.
“We decided that with four days ahead of very good weather forecast there’s no reason in the world we should have a terrible race just to have a second race in two days. The risk of having a bad race was too great given the weather forecast for the rest of the week.”
Racing for the seventy-three Star teams is scheduled to resume today, March 8, with race 2 starting one hour earlier at 1100 hours, immediately followed by race 3.