No racing at Youth Worlds due to high winds

Racing on day two of the 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing World Championships has been cancelled due to 30 knot winds in Buzios, Brazil. Two races are scheduled across each of the seven events for tomorrow, with much lighter and shiftier winds expected.

The Race Committee will try and make up the cancelled races after the lay day (14 July) when better seabreeze conditions are forecast.
Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships 2009

New Zealand’s current standings

1st Sam Meech – Laser Radial (Boy’s One Person Dinghy – 53 boats)
14th Rachel Basevi - Laser Radial (Girl’s One Person Dinghy – 39 boats)
8th Ben Mackay – RS:X (Boy’s Windsurfer – 24 boards)
9th Lucy Driver – RS:X (Girl’s Windsurfer – 15 boards)
11th Logan Dunning-Beck & Ben Goodwin – 420 (Boy’s Two-Person Dinghy – 31 boats)
12th Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher – 420 (Girl’s Two-Person Dinghy – 24 boats)
11th Marcus Hansen & James Turner – Hobie 16 (Open Multihull – 17 boats)

Principle sponsor of the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team is the NZL Yachting Trust. Supporting sponsors include SPARC, ASB and Line 7.