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Daily Reports
Day
2- Thursday, August 10
The first day of racing for the
Chubb US Junior Single and Doublehanded Sailing Championship for the
Smythe and Bemis Trophies was washed out by a series of thunderstorms that
parked over Galveston Bay. PRO Jim Tichenor initially had an on-shore
postponement until early afternoon. A breeze came in and it appeared that
the storms were by-passing the venue. However, once the fleet assembled
at the race course the storm coalesced into a single blob, changed
direction and headed straight for the boats. A few lightning strokes in
the distance pretty much sealed the deal. N over H appeared and we went
home.
The storms lingered over the
venue all afternoon and the racing for the day was called at 1635.
The time of the first warning
for tomorrow was moved up to 1045 hours.
We’ll try it again tomorrow.
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