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April 27, 2010 
Waiting For The Wind
Photo: (c) Jean-Marie Liot, April 2010
We were scheduled
to be the third group to sail, with each group ahead of us each sailing
three flights first. Group C finished their round with great wind,
maybe up to 10kts of breeze. As the repecharge group were rotating in,
the clouds started moving towards the race course. This affected the
wind a bit, and during their first race, the dying trend began. During
their second race, the boats sat at the leeward mark for 10 minutes
before the race committee cancelled racing. After another hour of
sitting and waiting, the gold group was cancelled for the day so we went
ashore around 5:30pm.
One member of our
team did actually get to sail today though. Debbie filled in for Alice
Manard, the bow on the other USSTAG team, who got food poisoning a
couple of nights ago and is not well. They asked Debbie if she would
be able to sail today as a fill in if Alice woke up again not feeling
well. After going through all of the required procedures for it to
happen, Deb sailed the one race that the repecharge completed. They won
their race, which was a good way to start their round. We are hoping
that Alice feels better tomorrow morning and can sail again.
The forecast for
tomorrow looks slightly better so we are hoping that we can complete the
gold fleet round robin tomorrow. Our fingers are crossed. The weather
has been lovely, but a bit more wind would make it perfect.
You can check out the regatta results on the regatta website. (Click on Match Racing near the top right, and open the pdf file when prompted.)
We would like to
thank Carmeuse
and Trinity Yachts
for their continued support of our campaign for the 2012
Olympics in London. We would also like to thank USSTAG
for their continued support.
Sail Hard, Anna Team Tunnicliffe |
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.
