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January 28, 2010
Miami, FL
Racing was tight today at the 2010 Rolex Miami OCR. We finished up the
Gold fleet races and went 1-1. With this added to yesterday's 2-0, we finished the round in second with a 3-2
record. Then it was on to the Quarter finals round against Lucinda Whitty from Australia. At the end of the day, we were up 2-0 in a first-to-three-point series.
Anna Getting Debbie Wet
Photo: (c) Dave Hein, Miami OCR, January 2010
Our first Gold fleet race today was against the reigning ISAF Women's Match Racing champion, Nicky Souter. We led her off the line, but made a small
mistake upwind, put ourselves behind, and were unable to catch up.
In the second
and final race of the Gold fleet, we were matched up against our fellow Americans, Sally Barkow and team. It was a great race all around the
race course. At the second windward mark, we got into a luffing situation
that ran into the press boats. Luckily they got out of the way just in time
so they didn't intefere with the race. On the downwind leg, we got
into a short gybing duel. We gybed away and managed to hold her off by about
half a boat length at the finish to take the win. That win put us in second overall in the round behind GBR's, Lucy MacGregor. Because we finished second in the Gold fleet, for the Quarter finals round (now a knock-out format), we are matched up against the winner of the repecharge, Lucinda Whitty (AUS).
We had some really good races with the Aussies. The first race started
with
us ahead, but them passing us downwind. We had room on them at the
leeward mark, but were not given it, so they were given a penalty. They spun
their penalty, and we extended on them to take the win. The second race was
much closer all around the course, but we held them off to the end and took
the second race. The series is first-to-three-points, so we need to win one
more tomorrow morning to advance to the Semi finals round. You can check the results
here at the regatta website.
We are learning a lot as a team and about working together, and we are having fun on top of that. This
is
a great event for us, being able to match up against all the top ranked sailors; the racing is close, and keeps us on our toes from start to finish.
I would like to thank Carmeuse for their continued support of our
campaign for the 2012 Olympics in London, England. I would also like to thank
USSTAG for their support.
Sail Hard, Anna Team Tunnicliffe |
Team Member
Anna: "To achieve our goals, we need 4D's:
Dream, Desire, Dedication, Discipline"
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Olympic Gold Medalist, World Class Woman Laser Radial Sailor And Now World Class Women's Match Racer
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.
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