Helly Hansen Merlin Rocket Week 2025 at Salcombe Yacht Club - Day 4

Past the halfway stage and the weather served up another wind direction for the fourth day of Helly Hansen Salcombe Merlin Week. Today it was the dreaded Northwesterly, a wind direction that gives great racing in the upper reaches of the Ria but a start line that is in exactly the worse place. With random gusts from every direction, including vertical, it is one of the more challenging starts to get right. Thumbnail photo by Lou Johnson, Start videos by Malcolm Mackley, Interviews by Malcolm Mackley & Lou Johnson Read the full day 4 report at https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/287649/Salcombe-Merlin-Rocket-Week-Day-4