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April 30, 2010 
Team Tunnicliffe Waiting For The Awards
Photo: USSTAG Facebook Page, April 2010
Today's conditions presented themselves as
the same as the rest of week - no wind and warm. But after about an
hour and a half postponement, the wind came in and we could get some
racing underway. The races we lost today, we lost off the line. We
had control of her for most of the start and made silly mistakes at the
end of the sequence to lose control and give it to her. The race that
we won, we also started behind, but sailed very smart and managed to
take over the lead again by the second windward mark to win the race.
Silke and team sailed a very good series and definitely deserved the
win. We learned a lot during the series, and are looking forward to
working on the areas in which we were a bit weak.
Our next event starts on Tuesday with
practice at the XII
Women's Match Race
Criterium held in Calpe, Spain. We are currently heading to Calpe,
and plan on getting there tomorrow night and meeting up with the rest
of our team. We are sailing Tom 28's with five people. Joining our
team is our fourth team member Liz Bower, and Mary Rook of GBR. We are
hoping to get in a couple of days practice before the regatta starts so
as to get used to the boats. We will give an update before the next event. We would like to thank everyone for the words of encouragement during the event that kept us going. You can check the final results at the regatta website. We would like to thank our sponsors Carmeuse and Trinity Yachts for their continued support for our campaign for the 2012 Olympics in London. We would like to thank USSTAG for their continued support.
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