Qualifying Races Wednesday 15 July: lots of wind (news feed 4) (15-07-2009)

10:50 second fleet still hasn't started.

wind on the beach: 16 knots. At sea we have gusts to 20 knots.

GER 197 jib torn.

NED 777 one of our all female teams is back waiting for the wind to decrease.

BEL 4 Cardinael Mathieu and NED 59 abandon.

AUS 662, Beattie Adam, broke his tiller cross bar. Fixed and back to the water.

 Wolf Justus and Pogetti Pietro are being towed back. One of them broke his rudder. The other we don't yet.

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