The International Moth World Championship saw a second day pass without a race completed.
The wind failed to rise above 6 knots long enough to consider starting a race, leaving the 150+ competitors from 24 countries, getting to know the WPNSA restaurant a little better than they may have wished.
Earlier the Protest Committee considered a query/protest regards towing to promote foiling pre start.
They replied that . . . ‘they do not consider this a breach under RRS 42 before the preparatory signal if in areas the support boats are permitted to be in.’
And added . . . As not all competitors have support boats, the protest committee have yet not considered whether gaining this advantage would be a breach of sportsmanship under RRS 2 (meaning a none discardable disqualification).
To try and salvage the event the Race Committee has set a Wednesday start time of 08:00 hrs for the Yellow fleet, with Blue Fleet 1st Warning signal not before 09:00 hrs.
Could this be the answer or could it just extend the time the fleets have to wait around again . . .
Whatever, Race Officer David Campbell-James will be whistling to the Wind-Gods tonight.
The Met Office is not hopefull, with lots of sun and little wind – NNE 8 or 9 knots early-on dropping away to ESE 6 knots.
Maybe the missing sea-breeze will drop by to help them out.
UPDATE Weds 14 June . . . 09:00 hrs
Sunny, N 9 knots, gusts 14 knots . . .
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