| Knickerbocker Cup 2009: Day 2 - Learning Day | | Print | |
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August 28, 2009
Manhasset, NY
Today was a great day of sailing
and we learned a lot of lessons. We sailed 6 races today, winning
three of them and leaving us with a 7-4 record for the first round robin.
Still Light And Shifty
Photo: Andrea Watson, August 2009
The round is still going on,
and will be completed after six more flights. We have a pretty
good record, but we will have to see tomorrow where we lie overall.
The next round is for the top eight boats which will race a round
robin.
Today’s conditions were shifty
and puffy with occasional rain showers that came through. We raced
in winds from 6-10kts with big oscillations. Unfortunately we
kept making the same silly mistake on the start line, which made our
day quite difficult, but we did end up winning three races, which gives
us a good record going into tomorrow. We drew a lot of penalties
on the other boats, which helped us out a bit when we were behind off
the line, but we learned what we did wrong and can hopefully fix the
problem for tomorrow.
The forecast for tomorrow is
for the remnants of Danny to come over and give us some wind and rain
and then get better through the day. We are sitting out
for the first part of tomorrow so we get the opportunity to relax in
the morning and watch some racing before we get back at it.
You can follow the regatta
at the regatta
website.
I would like to thank Carmeuse and Gill for their support of our team during
this event.
Sail hard, Anna |
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.