America's Cup: Forecast bad for sailing

Emirates Team New Zealand sailing on Bermuda's Great Sound. Photo / Richard Hodder / Emirates Team New Zealand

I am afraid the PredictWind forecast for the America's Cup course area for 1 June (Friday 2 June NZ time) is not good for sailing. All four predictive models show light winds that do not reach the minimum average strengths needed for racing:

PWG: 4-6 knots
PWE: 7-8 knots
GFS: 6-7 knots
ECMWF: 5-9 knots

If we get lucky and the forecasts are wrong, the race schedule is as follows:

Race 4: JPN vs FRA
Race 5: GBR vs NZL
Race 6: USA vs JPN
Race 7: FRA vs GBR