The 2014 Awaza PWA World Cup Turkmenistan - Day 3 (All Times GMT+5 Hours)
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19:30 Skippers' meeting tomorrow will be at 8am with the first possible start at 08:30am. Congratulations to Valerie Ghibaudo for her victory today.
19:12 Sailors are officially released for today. Skippers' meeting for tomorrow will be confirmed shortly after a check of various forecasts.
19:04 Z flag is up now on the committee boat the wind has completely dropped. Looks like that might be it for the day.
19:00 Results Women's Elimination Two - 1st Ghibaudo 2nd Cousin 3rd Mortefon 4th Unlu 5th Erdil 6th Kaplas
18:54 AP Flag is up again, the wind has dropped back again.
18:52 Heat 7 is back in countdown sequence.
18:49 Men's Losers' Final is now sailing - General Recall - Yilmazer and Vonk goes over early and is disqualified.
18:47 The heat has been cancelled! The wind dropped unfortunately - down to four knots.
18:45 Men's Winners' Final is now sailing - In the lead it's Toselli, Allen, Williams. Dagan was challenging but get caughts in a lull and dirty wind.
18:43 Results Men's Heat 6 - 1st Costa Hoevel 2nd Frans 3rd Dagan 4th Iachino 5th Cousin 6th Allen
18:42 Ghibaudo still leads at the third followed by Cousin and Moretfon
18:40 Women's Race 2 is now sailing - Ghibaudo with the best start and she leads into the first followed by Cousin, Mortefon.
18:35 Women's Race 2 is back in countdown sequence.
18:33 Women's Race 2 is now sailing - General Recall - Suzuki and Anayama.
18:29 Costa Hoevel still in the lead followed by Frans, Dagan. Buzianis and Allen battling for the final qualifying place.
18:27 Heat 6 is now sailing - Costa Hoevel off to a good one and it's him in the lead with Iachino and Menegatti up there too.
1st Mortefon 2nd Jossin 3rd Williams 4th Toselli 5th Diaz 6th Moussilmani C
18:24 Moussilmani C and Vonk are battling for the final qualifying place.
18:24 At the third mark it's Mortefon, Jossin, Williams, Toselli, Diaz and Cyril Moussilmani qualifying at the moment.
18:21 Heat 5 is now sailing - Toselli nails his start. At the first it's Toselli, Mortefon and Williams, Jossin and Moussilmani C.
18:18 Latest wind readings of 8-14 knots.
18:16 Heat 5 is back in countdown sequence.
18:13 AP Flag is up in the committee boat, the wind is swinging between onshore and offshore now.
18:09 Heat 5 is now in countdown sequence - Game on!
17:56 The wind has stabilised in the last few minutes with 8-12 knots being recorded. Still marginal, but enough to try so the sailors from heat 5 are on the way to the committee boat.
17:49 The word on the beach from the sailors is that the wind is quite up and down, sometimes it's okay but at others times they can't even plane.
17:39 There's a few sailors testing the wind again, but the news from the boat is that it's still not windy enough to compete.
17:11 The wind is still too light to compete at the moment, the next 30-60 minutes are crucial for today. We'll keep you updated if and when conditions change.
16:47 No change in the conditions as yet, so sailors remain on standby for the time being.
16:24 The wind is still only 6-9 knots on the course, but yesterday racing didn't resume until 5:40pm so there's still plenty of time to complete men's race one at least.
16:09 Unfortunately the wind has dropped back to only 6-9 knots to the sailors have been sent back to the beach, where they will remain in standby mode.
15:59 The wind seems to have backed off slightly in the last few minutes, so sailors remain in standby mode.
15:45 Heat 5 will be the first heat of the day to be sailed with the top six sailors qualifying for the first men's winners' final of the week.
15:39 The sailors have been called to the committee boat now. The sailors are planing pretty much straight off the beach.
15:35 Latest wind readings of 6-11 knots. Close, but not quite close enough...yet.
15:30 The wind is marginal, but still getting better - right now the wind is 7-10 knots, occasionally dropping below. Sailors remain in standby mode.
15:15 Jossin has just headed out onto the water and is on the plane. Conditions are very close now. Sailors will be in standby mode from now on, first possible start remains 3:30pm.
15:00 Conditions still aren't suitable at the moment. The crew are now on the water monitoring the wind though as things are slowly improving. Next announcement at 3:15pm, first possible start 3:30pm.
14:30 There's a bit of cloud cover coming across at the moment, so the wind hasn't really increased from what it was. Next call at 3pm with first possible start 3:15pm.
14:00 The good news is that the wind is already starting to pick up and is the right direction for the thermal to kick in. Next call 2:30pm, first possible start 2:45pm.
13:56 We've had confirmation that Josh Angulo has unfortunately had to withdraw from the remainder of the competition due to the foot injury he sustained yesterday. We'll have full details in an interview with Josh later on.
13:30 The wind has now swung onshore, but still light for the time being. Most of the sailors are grabbing some lunch, before the sea breeze hopefully kicks in. Next announcement 2pm, first possible start 2:30pm.
13:00 There's slightly more breeze than an hour ago, but still not properly windy. The local forecast does have wind between 15-22 knots predicted for this afternoon, so fingers crossed. Next call 1:30pm, first possible start 2pm.
12:00 The wind hasn't increased over the last hour so we'll stay with hourly announcements. Next call 1pm, first possible start 1:30pm.
11:00 Still very light winds at the moment so the next announcement at 12pm, first possible start at 12:30pm. Whilst there's not much action for the competitors, there's several people out learning to windsurf and sailing.
10:00 Over the last three hours there hasn't been any change in the wind conditions thus far. Next announcement at 11am with the first possible start at 11:30am.
07:00 With the wind clearly not doing anything right now, the next call will be at 10am, with the first possible start at 10:30am.
06:30 Next call at 7am, first possible start 7:15am.
06:15 Next call 6:30am - first possible start 6:45am.
06:00 The wind didn't change at all in the last 10 minutes. Next announcement at 6:15am, first possible start 6:30am.
05:52 At the moment the wind is pretty light with only 5-9 knots being recorded.
Good morning and welcome to day three of the Awaza PWA World Cup Turkmenistan. Yesterday saw Delphine Cousin claim the first victory of the week, as light and shifty winds made for a challenging day on the water, spanning from dawn till almost dusk. Skippers' meeting coming up in 25 minutes time.