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April 25, 2010 Hyeres, France
Racing started
today at the Semaine Olympique Francaise, here
in Hyeres, France. It was a beautiful day in southern France with a
light breeze all through the day. Team Tunnicliffe are
in group A for the Match Racers, and meant that we sailed first. We
had a gradient breeze of 4-6kts for our two races. We won both of the
races, and had a bye in the third flight of the round due to a couple
of teams not being able to make it to the event.
Hyeres,
FRA Marinas And Sailing Areas
Photo:
USSTAG Facebook Page
Our first race was
against Denmark's Trine Abrahamsen. We didn't have a great pre-start
against her, but had a clean start at the pin end of the line. She was
over at the boat end, so we were able to take advantage of her mistake
and went on to win the race.
Our second race was against Spain's Sylvia Roca. We controlled her in the pre-start and had a great start against her. At the bottom of the course we held an almost 5 boat length lead over her, but she is very fast and kept getting a little more breeze than we did which allowed her to pull back the five boat lengths and round right on our stern at the top mark. Downwind, we sailed very smart and kept the lead, even extending a little. Up the second beat, we saw pressure on the left, so we rounded the mark and continued to go straight. Sylvia tacked away and headed right. We split for a long time before we came back together and although we hadn't gained much, it was another boat length. Downwind again, we sailed smart and took the lead.
Team Tunnicliffe And Team Tulloch Debrief
With Coach Dave Dellenbaugh
Photo: USSTAG Facebook Page
Some additional good news, which I received this morning, is that at the Lauderdale YC awards banquet last night, I was awarded the LYC 2009 Yachtswoman of the Year. It is a great honor to win this award, and I'm very sorry that I couldn't be there to accept it. It's great to have such a supportive club behind what I am/we are doing and having the ability to train at such a prime location has been a huge factor in my success.
Sail Hard
Anna
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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.
