ORCV Melbourne Winter Series (MWS)

Cheery, happy, hopeful Brass for R5.

The Brass are certainly very happy with the changes to the wind forecasts from our friends at PredictWind. Simon says (and yes that was intentional), "Sunday's wind has moderated, so the bowman should stay drier, but if you look at the latest PredictWind weather chart, the CMC model does predict that the skies will open, between 6am and 9am. All told, if we miss the rain, it looks like at great sailing day. Now I look forward to seeing you all out there, hopefully, mostly dry!"

PredictWind models for Sunday 15/08/10 as of Friday 13/08/10.

BoM Forecast for Sunday for Port Phillip, as at 1500hrs on 13/08/10

Winds: West to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending southwesterly 20 to 25 knots during the afternoon then tending west to southwesterly 15 to 20 knots during the evening. Seas: 0.5 to 1 metres increasing 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon then easing to around 1metre in the evening.

BoM Forecast for Sunday for Melbourne, as at 1500hrs on 13/08/10

Cloudy periods. Scattered showers. Winds west to northwesterly averaging 15 to 25 km/h tending west to southwesterly up to 35 km/h around midday.

More on it all, right here, over the next little while....

The full MWS results to date are HERE.

You can still enter individual MWS races HERE and the M2G is HERE - remember that Cruising Divisions will be offered for the latter event.

By John Curnow and Simon Dryden

Friday 13/08/10@1500hrs

Thank you to David Judge and Tony Dawson from Hoobo's for ensuring Steb had a ride and we, therefore, had imagery.
The Colts (Sydney 38s) are having their own fight within the battle - many thanks to Ullman Sails for providing the prize.