Thursday - ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao - How to Follow - Day 2

Following some perfect starts on Day 1 in Qingdao, the second will see a shake up in the rankings as the discard comes in to play.

Leading the way in the Nacra 17 are Singapore’s Justin Liu and Denise Lim with three wins from three races yesterday. Matching that start in the Women’s RS:X was China’s Jiahui Wu. Although Wu holds a lead in the race to the Abu Dhabi final, Liu and Lim have the added bonus of Olympic qualification at stake, so they can expect some fight back from the chasing Asian teams today.

The sailors start with a north easterly breeze, which again moves to a south east breeze as we move through the day. The warm day in Qingdao sees 8-10 knots of wind gusting up to 14. Similar conditions to yesterday makes for an intriguing day as sailors can take the lessons learned from yesterdays racing and try to move up the leader board, while the over night leaders will look to capitalise from the conditions they did so well in.

Find out more about the day’s weather here – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/about/qingdao_weather.php

RESULTS / ENTRIES
Entries for ISAF Sailing World Cup are available to view on the World Cup website here – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/entrylist.php and results will be available throughout when racing commences on 16 September here – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/results/index.php

LIVE TRACKING
The racing will be available to watch in 2D and 3D via the live tracking. Live tracking will be available when racing commences via – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/multimedia/tracking.php

Live Tracking via the Sailviewer-3D Tablet App will be available for devices with 7″ or greater screens.
Click here to download the iOS Application – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sailviewer-3d/id912801278
Click here to download the Android Application – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stsportservice.sailviewer

COMPETITION STATUS
The Competition Status Screen feeds in straight from the Race Committee boats with the teams inputting data such as race times, course type, the status of each race and the plan moving forward. The competition status screen will be available when racing commences via – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/multimedia/tracking.php

NEWS
The International Sailing Federation will be releasing international press releases after racing throughout the duration of ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao. All the latest news and reports will be available to read here – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/news/index.php

SOCIAL MEDIA
Follow the event on ISAF’s social networks:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ISAFWorldSailing
Instagram – https://instagram.com/isafworldsailing/
Twitter – @ISAFupdates

ISAF Sailing World Cup
The ISAF Sailing World Cup is a world-class annual series for Olympic sailing. It is open to the sailing events chosen for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition. Its centre piece is the ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup will consist of five regattas for all ten Olympic events and where possible, Formula Kite Racing. Qualification places for the ISAF Sailing World Cup final are up for grabs at each event. The final will bring together the top 20 boats in each Olympic event and an Open Kiteboarding event where the World Cup Champions will be crowned

2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup
Melbourne – 7-14 December 2014
Miami – 25-31 January 2015
Hyères – 20-26 April 2015
Weymouth and Portland – 8-14 June 2015
Qingdao – 14-20 September 2015
2015 Final Abu Dhabi – 27 October to 1 November 2015