ADELAIDE, LARGS BAY, AUSTRALIA-(30-12-2002) There is currently a 2 - 7 knot North Westerly with the forecast as of 6am: Northeast winds 5/10 knots turning north to northwest and freshening to 17/22 knots during the afternoon.
Possible thundersqualls this afternoon and evening to 45 knots. Seas around 0.5 metres rising to 1 to 1.5 metres this afternoon.
In the full rig most the fleets pulled out of the races. In the first start Yoichi Iijima from Japan won over South Australian James Warnes.
Full Rig Start One 1st - 17 - Yoichi Iijima - 173738 2nd - 32 - James Warnes - 176939 3rd - 63 - Shane Mountifield - 173464 4th - 97 - Kym Tuck - 173433 5th - 122 - Nicholas Van Soest - 168165
In the Second Start Andrew Darcey won followed by Aaron Heritage both from South Australia with Ko Takahashi from Japan in 3rd.
Full Rig Start 2 1st - 10 - Andrew Darcey - 175986 2nd - 36 - Aaron Heritage - 175297 3rd - 31 - Ko Takahashi - 79547 4th - 93 - Phil McDonald - 172238 5th - 2 - Simon Baker - 168647
Radials Start 1 1st Robert Dousset 2nd Warwick Hill 3rd Gary Martin 4th Doug Kane 5th Alexander Conroy
Radials Start 2 1st Lyndall Patterson 2nd Jonathon Merry 3rd Simon Hurling 4th Kevin Bones
4.7 Rig Results 1st P Brinkly - QLD 2nd N Scali - NSW 3rd Q Houghton - QLD 4th Jean Holdernesse - SA 5th J Van Soest - QLD With Heat 1 only 100 minutes away we look likley to go in to postponment with the wind dropping out to nothing. A storn is expected to hit with gust up to 45 knots.
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