SFWMRT in Calpe - Day One
The day dawned with very little breeze. After about a two hour dock postponement, the boats left the dock (the SFWMRT had a first race “Bye”), and the four teams not racing followed out in motor boats. The little breeze there was faded during the first flight, so all racing was abandoned and we all returned to shore. After three hours of waiting on shore with no breeze, the Race Committee put us out of our misery and let us go for the remainder of the day.
A front is scheduled to come in tomorrow, so hopefully it will bring some breeze.
Now, it’s time to go to climb to the top of Penyon de Ifach (the big rock in the background of all the photos).
We will try to post some photos on www.lizbaylis.com when we return to the YC for dinner later.
We were told that some of the links yesterday were too long for some email systems to sort out properly, so here are the links we sent out yesterday in a different format:
The weather:
http://tinyurl.com/3c4xst
Real Club Nautico Calpe (the yacht club):
http://www.rcnc.es
IX International Women’s Match Race Criterium (the event):
http://tinyurl.com/34nlpx
Calpe has a couple of web cams that are fun to check out:
Here’s the directory, so you can test your geography (hint: Calpe is lower middle right):
http://webcam.comunitatvalenciana.com/
This is the view directly from the deck of the yacht club:
http://tinyurl.com/2vonaz
This is from a restaurant along the beach looking out towards the race course:
http://tinyurl.com/2wpele
Cheers,
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team
Liz, Karina, Suzy, Melinda, and Lee