11:10 AM Wed 10 Aug 2011 GMT
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'America’s Cup World Series, Cascais, 6 August 2011'
Ian Roman
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Follow Day 4 of the America's Cup World Series live on Sail-World using this Live Viewer - racing gets underway at 1600hrs local time in Cascais, Portugal
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for the latest updates from Cascias:
1315 - John Craig, Principal Race Officer, on a case of 'it's not normally like this': 'Cascais is a beautiful place and historically we've gone back six or seven years to look at the weather. Typically it's a breeze place and historically it shows that. It's one of those 'it's never like this' days and hopefully the weather will come back this afternoon and we'll have a good show.'
1225 - Iain Murray, Regatta Director, talking about the lack of wind today: 'We've seen this coming for a couple of days and decided to delay racing a couple of hours [until 1600 hours]. We're hoping we'll have breeze coming from between 250 to 300 degrees, between 4 and 10 knots [wind speed]. Before that, the breeze is all over the place. The good news is the weather looks fantastic tomorrow. Should be back to regular tomorrow.'
1215 - Even though racing doesn't start until 1600 (GMT+1), our live stream will begin at 1400, with a replay of Sunday's fleet racing.
1040 - Here's the news from yesterday... Check it out on YouTube.
0930 - Due to today's 'funky' forecast, the Race Committee has decided to postpone racing until 1600. As in the forecast below, the unusual wind conditions are expected to stabilize and build over the course of the afternoon. The plan is that by 1600, the weather will produce fair conditions for racing.
0830 - Check out ORACLE Racing bowman Simeon Tienpont explain how the AC45 'flies', right here.
0820 - The forecast Wednesday is for an 'unusual' day by weather standards - one that promises to challenge the crews with light, patchy conditions.
Winds are expected to be quite light from the South to Southwest through much of the afternoon Wednesday and will be variable in strength and direction. For race time at 1410, the sailors can expect Southerlies from 3 to 8 knots (6 to 15 kph). Over the afternoon, the wind should shift right to the Southwest and build slightly, up to 5-10 knots (10-20 kph), perhaps stronger for the final race of the day.
Thursday and Friday should bring more traditional Cascais conditions with winds in the 15 knot range by race time.
0810 - It's very bright and hot in Cascais this morning and forecast to be one of the hottest days of the regatta. Today should through some very challenging conditions at the crews...
by Richard Gladwell
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