Created: Jun 16, 2024 02:19 PM
Kelsey Durham, again, with crew Nico Stefani, Heath Foggo, Roger Seaside and Michael Richold ({Photograph} equipped)
Bermuda’s contingent on the Worldwide One Design World Championship in Norway must wait at the very least one other day earlier than getting their campaigns underneath approach.
Regatta organisers cancelled the opening two races on Sunday to stop boats from being broken by winds exceeding 20 knots and uneven seas.
Flying Bermuda’s flag on the occasion are helmsmen Patrick Cooper and Kelsey Durham, who took issues of their stride.
“Wind was over 20 knots and the ocean state very like South Shore can be at 20 knots,” Cooper informed The Royal Gazette.
“Half the fleet are picket boats and a few are courting again to 1937, so the organising authority did the fitting factor defending the boats at the beginning of the regatta.
“This implies no lay day on Wednesday and 5 days of straight racing.”
Groups finalising preparations within the lead as much as the 2024 IOD World Championship in Norway ({Photograph} equipped)
Cooper, who achieved his greatest exhibiting up to now of third when Bermuda hosted the IOD World Championship in 2022, is making his fifth look on the occasion and is competing with crew Martin Siese, Andrew Butterworth, Invoice McNiven and Craig Davis.
Durham, who’s making his regatta debut this yr, additionally agreed with the race committee’s choice to maintain the 20-strong racing fleet ashore.
“I believe it was name,” he stated. “It was actually windy and tough, so we didn’t even go on the water.
“It’s actually chilly and windy and tomorrow [Monday] doesn’t look too good both.”
Durham, 30, is competing with crew Nico Stefani, Heath Foggo, Roger Seaside and Michael Richold.
Additionally among the many fleet in Norway is defending champion and a number of Bermuda Worldwide Invitational Race Week winner, John Burnham, who’s representing the Fishers Island IOD fleet.