{"id":75950,"date":"2023-07-29T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=75950"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:45:30","slug":"weather-stoppage-for-saturdays-marblehead-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/regatta-series\/weather-stoppage-for-saturdays-marblehead-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Stoppage for Saturday&#8217;s Marblehead Races"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0145-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image disable-lazyload\" alt=\"Marek Zaleski&#039;s Viper 640 Team Z\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0145-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0145-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0145-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0145-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0145-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0145.jpg 1620w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Marek Zaleski&#8217;s Viper 640 Team Z leads the only &#8220;unofficial&#8221; race on Saturday at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead\u2014the race to the hoist\u2014after racing was abandoned due to deteriorating weather conditions on Massachusetts Bay.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>Hoping to complete additional races before the forecasted arrival of afternoon thunderstorms, the race committees of Marblehead\u2019s Corinthian, Eastern and Boston yacht clubs set out this morning onto a placid Massachusetts Bay with the best intentions. Mother Nature, however, had other plans and kept sailors of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in perpetual postponement until racing was ultimately abandoned in the early afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XFWRFQXtuSQ?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With no additional races to count, the Marblehead regatta\u2019s results remain unchanged with one day remaining, and with the two ILCA fleets yet to complete any races, organizers announced plans for an early Sunday morning start, to take advantage of a short window of a promising wind forecast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With three important New England Championship titles to be decided for the Viper 640, J\/70 and Town classes, each currently close in points, sailors were eager to have their respective series play out. Nick Cann and his partner Andrea Dodge, on <em>Tonic<\/em>, leaders of the competitive local Town class, said on this way to the racecourse this morning that they were looking forward to more racing and a bit of the same luck they enjoyed the previous day in a pair of races noted for the tricky conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0035-1024x689.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Canadian Viper 640 teams\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0035-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0035-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0035-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0035-50x34.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0035.jpg 1200w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Canadian Viper 640 teams assemble at the Eastern YC to prepare for Saturday&#8217;s races at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne race, the left side was favored, and the other race, it was the right side,\u201d Cann said, \u201cand there was plenty of luck involved, especially in the last race when Chris Howes [on <em>Believe It Or Not]<\/em> forced me to tack away. We got second in that one and he ended up seventh, so that worked out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0188-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Lightning sailors\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0188-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0188-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0188-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230729_SWRS_Marblehead-0188-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, 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late October where they will compete against other individual Regatta Series winners as well as the 2022 Championship\u2019s defending team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yachtscoring.com\/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=15509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Provisional Results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With low winds and high hopes, the sailors set out on the third day of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead, but the action was a no-go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":75953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Dave Reed","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"157","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"With stormy weather on the horizon and no wind to conduct races, the race committee sent sailors 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