Breeze on in Melbourne

A cold front moving across southern Victoria has brought chilly autumn-like temps and stronger winds to day three of the Sailing World Cup Melbourne.

Cold westerlies mean plenty of layers for race officials and full length wetsuits for competitors heading out from the St Kilda sailing precinct for the midday session. As of 10:30 local time, racing was schedule to commence on time with the sea-state moderate and 20 knots of WSW wind blowing at the top of Port Phillip.

Starting at midday are the 470s (men’s and women’s), 49er and 49erFX and possibly the 2.4mR and for the invited classes the Laser Radial and 4.7s, Viper, Open Bic and Minnows, Optimists and Libertys are first off St Kilda beach.

The prediction is for winds to dial up to 20-30 knots in the middle of the day and the Principal Race Officers of both the invited and Olympic and Paralympic classes are monitoring the situation and have the option to postpone competition and send competitors back ashore if they deem that a good course of action.

There is a question mark over whether the Para classes will race out of the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria.

RESULTS / ENTRIES
Results will be available throughout when racing commences on 9 December 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

SOCIAL MEDIA
The hashtag of Sailing World Cup Melbourne is #SWCMelb

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Sailing World Cup
The 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 Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The 2016 Sailing World Cup will consist of five regattas for all ten Olympic events and where possible, Formula Kite Racing. Qualification places for the 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

2016 Sailing World Cup
Melbourne – 7-13 December 2015
Miami – 23-30 January 2016
Hyères – 25 April – 1 May 2016
Weymouth and Portland – 6-12 June 2016
Qingdao – 12-18 September 2016
2015 Final Abu Dhabi – 24-28 October 2016