Alice Parker, navigator of the Reichel/Pugh 72 URM Group, said of the BOM forecast: “It's such a moving picture.
“I find it a little bit exciting when the forecast is this uncertain because anything can happen and there'll be opportunities for little boats and opportunities for big boats.”
Kathy Veel, owner/co-skipper with Bridget Canham of Currawong 30 Currawong said that for the race in the Two-Handed division, she was not overly concerned about the uncertainty.
With Currawong being last to finish last year, Veel is used to handling numerous systems.
“I made a point really of not looking too closely at the weather until a couple of days out, because you can't control it, you're not going to change it,” Veel said.
“There's a lot of other things to worry about. So why worry about the weather a week out?”
David Henry, owner/co-skipper and navigator of the two-handed entry, the Sydney 36, Philosopher, is also preparing for the long haul.
“The only thing we definitely know at this stage is we don't know. I'm just hoping for more good news at the end,” he said.
“We don't have one weather system to worry about, we probably have at least two weather systems to get through.
“We have double trouble when it comes to trying to predict what the weather is going to be.
“What we see on Boxing Day is one weather pattern. A day or so after that, we're looking further down the track, because we'll probably take three or four days to get there.”
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