VOR: Short course weather

At 400 miles Leg 6 is the shortest of all the legs in this race. In fact, with a rhumb line course that keeps the boats nearly in sight of shore, this leg is likely to be sailed much more like the In Port races. On Sunday, the fleet can look forward to a partly sunny, spring day for the start, with typically light conditions for the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay. The overall pressure gradient should be north easterly, with a low pressure system approaching from the south; however, on a more local scale, the conditions in the Chesapeake are likely to be fluky with local geographic effects and thermal gradients causing frequent shifts and gusts.