Last night the competitors let their hair down at the Bingo Competition. This morning they’ve got their game faces on again for day three of the Youth Worlds.
The regatta reaches the midpoint today and patterns are beginning to emerge in most fleets. There’s a lot of catching up to do in the Windsurfing fleets, however, and both the boys and girls on the Youth iQFOiL boards are scheduled to take on eight back-to-back races this afternoon.
The forecast is for hot temperatures and light winds of 7 to 10 knots up to midday, dropping to 5 to 8 knots in the afternoon, and clocking around from the south-west to the north-west throughout the day. With the strong currents of Scheveningen, the race committee has a big challenge to complete a full schedule of racing today.
There are five-course areas, with a slightly later start to racing today:
- Course A – from 1400 hours, eight races each for Windsurfing Male and Female (Youth iQFOiL)
- Course B – at 1200 hours, three races for Male Skiff (29er), then three races for Female Skiff at 1530 hours
- Course C – at 1200 hours, three races each for One Person Dinghy Male and Female fleets (ILCA 6 class), then four races for Multihull Mixed (Nacra 15 class) from 1500 hours
- Course D – at 1200 hours, two races for the Male/Mixed 420 fleet, and at 1530 hours two races for the Female 420 fleet
- Course E – at 1400 hours, five races each for Kiteboarding Male and Female (FormulaKite)
Every boat and board is carrying a GPS tracking unit supplied by TracTrac, which means you can watch all the racing live on SAP Sailing Analytics: https://youthworlds2022.sapsailing.com
The 51th edition of the Youth Sailing World Championships is held at The Hague, Netherlands, from 8-15 July 2022.
The Youth World Championships are seen as the stepping stone to the World Sailing Championships. The talents of up to 19 years compete against each other on a high level and from there they can move on to the top.
There are almost no Olympic medal winners who did not also participate in the Youth World Championships.
