Light winds deliver a hot and challenging Opening day in Tavira
The first day of the 2011 420 Open and Ladies Open European Championships dawned with an overcast sky, the first for several weeks, before the usual blue sky kicked in, whilst the wind struggled to sustain itself.
The first day of the 2011 420 Open and Ladies Open European Championships dawned with an overcast sky, the first for several weeks, before the usual blue sky kicked in, whilst the wind struggled to sustain itself.
With a final entry of 77 entries in the Open fleet and 62 entries in the Ladies fleet, both divisions have been split into a blue and yellow fleet. After each day's racing in the qualifying series the fleets will be re-seeded, before being allocated to gold and silver fleets for the final series which gets underway on 27 July 2011.
After race 1 had been completed for all fleets, it was then a waiting game as
