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August 27, 2009
Port Washington, NY
Today was the first day of
racing at the 2009 Knickerbocker Cup at Manhasset Bay YC in New York.
We had a great day and finished with a 4-1 record, losing our only
race to our USSTAG coach, Dave Perry.
Close Call Between Tunnicliffe and Perry
Photo: Andrea Watson Aug 2009
The conditions were light and shifty, which suited our team quite well. All five of us worked very well together on communication and got ourselves into very good situations. It was a very long day with a couple of hours break in the middle of the day whilst we waited for breeze. We did get to come in and hangout in the air conditioning while we waited for it to fill in again. 
Quiet Concentration
Photo: Andrea Watson, Aug 2009
We had one very close race
against Reuben Corbett in race four of the day. We beat them to
the windward mark, but made a bad call on our gybe and got rolled.
We did a good job holding them out past the layline at the leeward mark
and had a bit more speed, and led them into the mark. It was close
and exciting and got the heart rates up, despite the light air.
It was a great race, and we are looking forward to more good racing
tomorrow.
Tomorrow, we will have a bit
of a delayed start as we are waiting for the other half of the fleet
to finish four more races. The forecast for tomorrow is for a
bit more breeze as the hurricane approaches our part of the world.
You can follow the race results at the regatta
website, and I
will post a report at the end of the day tomorrow.
Video coverage of Tunnicliffe/Perry prestart can be seen on YouTube.
Additional press releases can be viewed at Sailing Press Inc.
I would like to thank Carmeuse and Gill for their support of us for this event.
Sail hard, Anna |
Team Member
Representing the USA, Anna Tunnicliffe won the Gold Medal in the Women's Laser Radial dinghy at the 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao, China. Anna was the ISAF world's Number One-ranked women's Radial sailor from April 9, 2008 to May 2010. She was voted 2009 & 2011 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year. Now Anna, skipper of Team Maclaren, has teamed up with Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi to take on the world and go for Gold in 2012 London Olympic Games in Women's Match Racing and the team is currently ranked #1 in the ISAF WMR rankings.
