Thursday, 11 April 2013

Extreme Sailing Series Act 2, Singapore light and shifty conditions predicted

From the following article submitted to Sail-World by Kate Levan of the Daily Telegraph

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Extreme-Sailing-Series-2013:-fiddle-dee-dee-in-Singapore?/108305

Making its debut as a regular Extreme venue, a hot and steamy Singapore will deliver light wind conditions for all four days of the event with almost no gradient wind creating frustration and forcing errors among the eight crews. Bouts of crash and burn that typify Extreme 40 racing are likely to give way to games of fiddle-dee-dee after a forecast for Singapore predicted virtually no wind for Act 2 of the Extreme Sailing Series starting on Thursday.

What breeze there is will come from local thermal effects which are set to be very shifty, making it more difficult than usual to assess form. Local knowledge will prove vital which puts Team Aberdeen Singapore competing as an invitational team, at an advantage since two local Singaporeans Scott Glen Sydney and Justin Wong have been selected as members of Rob Greenhalgh’s crew.


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