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March 31, 2010
We finished racing today at the Princesa
Sofia Tropheo. We finished the repecharge round in a three-way
tie for second; lost one place in the tie breaker, meaning we finished
3rd in the round, which put us 9th overall in the results.
"It
Is Freaking Windy!"
Photo:
(c) Nico Martinez, March 2010
This morning we
had two races left. We knew the results would be close, and we had to
win both of our races to guarantee us advancing. We headed out in windy
breeze blowing right off the shore which meant it was quite puffy.
Our first race was
against Australia's Nicky Souter. We had a great pre-start and led the
whole way up the beat. We rounded the windward mark ahead and went for
a gybe set to try and sail towards what we thought was the next puff
coming. As it turned out, it wasn't quite the next one, and Nicky, who
didn't gybe managed to get around us. It was ok though, because we
managed to surf back up to her and get an overlap which we hoped would
lead us into the mark so we we would round ahead. We made a mistake on
our boat by taking our eyes off the breeze that was coming, resulting
in a broach over to windward, smothering most of the crew on the other
boat with our spinnaker. It was a silly mistake that cost us and we
drew an obvious penalty from it. After that, everything happened quite
quickly and we got in a bit of a mess. We lost the lead and then the
race.It was too bad, because we were leading the race, and lost it on
one silly mistake. We were disappointed, but knew that we had to win
the next race no matter what.
"And
Wavy! Made For Some Awesome Surfing!"
Photo:
(c) Nico Martinez, March 2010
Our last race was
against Dorte Jensen from Denmark. We sailed a very good race and led
the whole way around. It was a satisfying feeling to end on a good
note and a well executed race. We would like to thank USSTAG coach,
Dave Perry, for his help during the regatta.
We are obviously disappointed with our overall result, and we only have ourselves to blame. But we are glad that it happened at this point in the year, so that we can learn from our mistakes and not make them again. Our feeling is that if we had advanced and done better in the results, we would have brushed the errors aside/overlooked them, and not really learned from them. It is a hard way to learn, but it's good for us once in a while. We are very much looking forward to our next regatta in Hyeres France, the Semaine Olympique Francaise, which is the fourth event in the ISAF World Cup Series . Between now and the Hyeres event, we have a week off before we head to Chicago for a week of training. After training, we have a busy four week period in which we are competing in three events. We are glad to be back sailing/racing and learning. We would like to thank Carmeuse for their continued support of our campaign for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England. We would also like to thank USSTAG for their continued support. Sail Hard, Anna Team Tunnicliffe |
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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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