Thursday Gloom

Another light air morning, but with fog this time... The regatta is delayed ashore until at least noon. We are shoreside watching the horizon and watching reports from the nearby weather buoy at Sand Key. The forecast is for slight improvement this afternoon and the organizers are hoping to send us out for racing late into the day with potential to delay the evening's awards party (scheduled nightly at 6 p.m.).

Under pressure to run good races, Premiere Racing has moved up Friday morning's start times by one hour. An approaching front is supposed to being 20 to 25 knots tomorrow.

Clearly, this week has been very strange weather-wise. Years and years clipped by for KWRW with no missed days. In fact, going to the early 1990s, only a couple of days were missed due to weather. One of the many attractions of this venue were consistently "sailable" conditions. But 2008 has featured no racing on two of the last three and, potentially, three of four.  As for yesterday's situation, event organizer Peter Craig says, “The wind never reached the threshold at which we felt we could have a quality, fair race. Our race committee has certain standards and we are not going to sacrifice quality in order to just get in a race.”

-DSG