Today wasn’t about big wind shifts, or challenges in setting the course. It was all about the sailors, and making their own breaks. Less than half a dozen hours before […]
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Radial
2019 Radial Youth Worlds Day 5 – Bad Breaks
“Yellow flag down and sound in 35 seconds” calls the timer. “Flag ready” “Sound ready” “Mark 2, six knots at two six zero”… “Mark 3, five knots at two five […]
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2019 Radial Youth Worlds Day 4 – Keeping the Pressure On
Kingston, Ontario, Canada Conditions were fairly unexceptional all day: plenty of wind, but not overpowering, with enough shifts to make things interesting. While there were a couple of oscillations that […]
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2019 Radial Youth Worlds Day 3 – Mid Way
Kingston, Ontario, Canada As anticipated, the wind started off a bit fresher today than our previous two days, with knot speeds in the mid to upper teens. It wasn’t survival […]
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2019 Radial Youth Worlds Day 2 – Smooth Sailing
The second day of racing was almost a carbon copy of the first, except that the wind filled in with just a bit more strength for the second race, and […]
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2019 Radial Youth Worlds Day 1 – Easing In
The first day of competition in the 2019 Laser Radial Youth World Championships served up conditions that made life easy for Race Committee: enough wind to keep boats moving and […]
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2019 Radial Youth World Championships – Ready to Go
The 2019 edition of the ILCA Laser Radial Youth World Championships is set to get underway. 208 competitors from 32 countries have gathered together in Kingston, Ontario, Canada to compete […]
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2018 Laser Under-21 World Championships – Final Day
[photos: Robert Hajduk] Going into the final day of the 2018 Laser Under-21 World Championships, there was only a two point difference between the top two sailors in each of […]
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2018 Laser Under-21 World Championships – Day 5
[photos: Robert Hajduk] At a quarter to 10 am, there was enough wind from the west to give RC some confidence in going out to the race area to begin […]
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2018 Laser Under-21 World Championships – Day 4
[photos: Robert Hajduk] In the Laser Standard class, it was the first day of the finals series. So the sailors have been split into gold and silver fleets for the […]
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