Sorry to be missing you Gary !
For the remainder, Building boats, building boats, building boats. Matt has arrived and so to Geert. We expect many more to come over the next two days.
It is midday friday the 10th, the first day of the event (measuring) although the official opening is held on Sunday afternoon.
I'm cleaning house so it is save again to walk into my kitchen of bathroom without having received a tetanus injection in the last 10 years. ! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I'm expecting a few of us to hang out at my place tonight. If we are lucky we'll get some more landyachting in tonight. Yesterday evening I took Phill Brander out for a spi on a nearby parking lot. We had only 60 minutes to get to the parking lot, rig the craft sail it, unrig it and get back in time for dinner. Still, Phill got a good 30 minutes of landyachting in, despite all that. He felt that that was too short ! So second chance tonight.
Hopefully by then we can get some pictures and video clips going. That gear has to be tested as well don't you think.
The sun is able to burn through the clouds today but still we have a force 6 winds from the north.
In anybody wants to follow the weather conditions during racing then look to these two pages.
Windspeeds on the water over last 24 hours. (both base and peak speeds)
http://www.actuelewaterdata.nl/data/result/target128.htmlWave height (note how the vertical axis changes units dynamically ! a low graph doesn't mean low waves)
http://www.actuelewaterdata.nl/data/result/target41.html...
Darn these plots are dynamically generated and switch numbers between updates. To see the correct plots got to :
http://www.actuelewaterdata.nl/then choose :
Golfgegevens (wave data)
or
Wind, Zicht, Luchtdruk& temperatuur. (wind, visibility, airpressure (barometer) and temperatuur)
And look for the links with "IJmond" in the title. click on those to the latest updated data.
For tidal information (important for racing as we have a significant tidal current here)
http://www.getij.nl/index.cfm?page=getijtafels&location=IJMDBTHVN;We are getting there !
Wouter
