The boisterous weather conditions expected this Tuesday have forced Race Management to redesign the course for this 16th edition of the CIC Normandy Channel Race in order to preserve the integrity of the fleet and avoid a violent front rolling across the Celtic Sea. “In anticipation of a strong gale and heavy seas, we felt it would be more prudent to send the boats a little further south to let this depression roll through,” explains Race Director Miranda Merron. After Wolf Rock, the competitors will set a course towards the north-west tip of Brittany, rounding a waypoint located to the west of ‘L’occidentale de sein’. From there the fleet will sail the standard course albeit in the opposite direction: with a climb up to Fastnet lighthouse, then a passage along the south coast of Ireland as far as Tuskar Rock before returning to Ouistreham via Guernsey.
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