14th Landsailing World Championship in Nevada - Day 1
by Russ Foster 14 Jul 2014 08:51 UTC
12-19 July 2014
Light winds insufficient to start racing prevailed for hours throughout the day today at the Landsailing World Championships...until ten minutes after the race committee officially called off racing for the fleet of 40+ International 5.6 Mini Yachts.
At that point, the seemingly endless 'sucker puffs' that had enticed the eager land yachters out of their camp only to strand them out on the dry lake.....finally turned into sustainably sailable wind that lasted for an hour or more and was then enjoyed as practice sailing by all classes.
For the coming days, the race committee has vowed to hold out for wind until it is sailable until there clearly is no possibility of racing.
Since there was no racing to report today, we invite readers to look at Official Event Photographer Walter Carels' great pictures of the practice sailing and the beautiful and interesting scenery on and around Smith Creek Playa, the regatta venue.
Organising authorities:
www.nalsa.org
www.fisly.org