Day three offered rought conditions for the competitiors but the RC and sailors managed to pull off no less than five races. Here are the results and the short but somewhat ironic story from our correspondent.

Well what a fantastic sail.....

Strong winds gusting to 30knots and beyond made for no racing on day two. Here is the short from our correspondents.

One hour postponement; very similar to yesterday.
Rescue boat is going out to check the wind conditions at 11:30 and then a decision will be made.
On the up side, it is not raining (at the moment).

Few people have been out on Ribs and they all say it's totally unraceable. Gusts to 33kts earlier! 

Paul (Alani) went out on borrowed kit Tim. Bic raceboard with a 5.6m sail. Support RIB clocked him at 25kts plus several times before he crashed and burned!

When he got ashore he reckoned the gusts were probably somewher near 2x windspeed and it was just impossible to hold onto the sail as it powered up too quickly to react! 

Todays racing is cancelled. Strong winds makes racing impossible. Here is the report from our correspondent at Mumbles

Rescue boat went out; average wind was around 22-24 over the course; max gust was 34kts!

No sailing today; plan to race from 11am tomorrow; however the forcast for tomorrow is similar!!!!

A day with string winds at the coast of Wales. Here is the take from our reporter at the scene at 1200 hours:

2 hrs postponement.  Forcast is bad 23kts gusting to 30; rescue boat has been out and over 2 minute period; average 21kts, gusting 29 -

It seems like the race committee is keen to have some races today as they have postponed for just two hours. Fortunately Mumbles Yacht club have a bar and other facilities where the competitors can rest while waiting. We all hope this will not be a repeat of last years GC blowout.

The Formula 16 Global Challenge begins tomorrow. Organizers are the the GBR class association and Mumbles Yacht Club.

We have been promised daily updates from participants and several video kits and GPS units are at the venue. Here is a small report from our reporter Simon Longstaff who also participates in the event on F16 GBR 553.

Today has been a day of bimbling, and sailing. I did the first practice race and then decided I need to change some settings and so went in as Hans came out; Overall Mark P ran 3 or 4 races round decent sized W/L courses. Some were going fast up wind, some were going fast down wind.

The wind was a shift F2-3. Tomorrow's forecast looks a bit dicey (22-30 kts) so people are tieing boats to anything heavy they can find.

Mumbles Yacht Club on the internet can be found here: http://mumblesyachtclub.co.uk/f16worlds2008/

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Le conseil général de la F16 (CG) est heureux de vous annoncer la création  d’un comité de presse F16 ! En effet, nous souhaitions que la F16 se dote d’un outil lui permettant de publier son actualité et de la commenter. C’est maintenant chose faite grâce à l’implication de certains de nos membres.

Ce comité de presse a été voulu international de manière à avoir un impact auprès de la plus grande population possible.

L’idée principale du comité de presse est d’organiser plus de publicité autour de la classe F16 dans les magazines, les journaux, l’Internet,… Nous pensons qu’un comité de presse nous permettra de diffuser de manière optimale les infos rassemblées par nos membres.

Les personnes suivantes ont accepté d’être dans le comité de presse.

Rolf Nilsen (Norvège)
Gill de Bruyne (Belgique)
Kathleen Vandenbulcke (Belgique)
Gary Maskiell (Australie)
Mark Presdee (Royaume-Uni)

Malheureusement nous n’avons pas encore de membres aux États Unis. Si quelqu’un veut faire partie du comité, n’hésiter pas à nous contacter. Toute l’aide est la bienvenue !
Cordialement,

Hans Klok
Chairman F16 Governing Council