Bonjour- Happy Easter

I departed the UK on Good Friday to arrive on the South coast of France at Hyeres to cold and cloudy and now torrential rain conditions! That rarity of a lovely Bank Holiday for Great Britain and I am sadly missing out - enjoy people

I am currently out in Hyeres for another in series of  ISAF World Cup Olympic Classes Sailing Regattas supporting Skandia Team GBR in the 13 month build up to the Olympic Games
Racing starts tomorrow and today we are seeing the end of some very strong E winds (made for an interesting landing) and some fairly heavy rain that has limited peoples training programmes

Conditions are looking like they will be gradient driven (no thermal influence) for the first couple of days as temperatures attempt to recover and build into the end of weak. Initially moderate E conditions will steadily decrease through the week resulting in sea breeze developments.

Hyeres as a venue is a fairly tricky for sea breeze developments as you can see from the surrounding land causing issues in the quadrant developments. It essentially results in two separate sea breeze developments, a local sea breeze form ESE and the dominant WSW sea breeze that moves in over the peninsula

You can check out the event website http://sof.ffvoile.net/ for the results