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May 4, 2010
Team Tunnicliffe arrived in Calpe, Spain
three days ago in preparation for our next event, the XII
International Women's Match Race Criterium. We also added two
members to the team, Liz Bower, our fourth, and new addition, Mary Rook
from Great Britain. Today is our second day of practice in the Tom
28's, a boat that seems quite big after spending the last two months in
the Elliot 6m. But the girls up front are very good and have figured
out how to handle the boat already.
TOM
28 : The Boat We Will Be Racing (A Bit Bigger Than The Elliot 6m!)
Photo:
(c) Team Tunnicliffe, May 2010 Getting here was a bit exciting. Liz's flight was delayed three hours out of Philly so she missed her connection in Barcelona, resulting in her bags being missing for three days now. Our trip involved the baggage hold door on the plane being so broken, the airline was going to have to fly in a mechanic from Scotland to fix it, with the subsequent delays for us. However, five minutes later, we were being told that we were going to take off. Not sure how they all of a sudden fixed it, maybe duct tape. But luckily, we all arrived safely around the same time and met up with Mary and drove the 45 minutes from Alicante Airport to Calpe.
Calpe is a
beautiful seaside town. The yacht club and the apartment in which we
are staying, is located on a peninsula that has a massive rock on the
end of it. We call it 'the rock'. Very original I know, but that's
really all it is. Yesterday, we weren't allowed to practice, so we
decided that after we had done our morning workouts, we would climb
'the rock' for an additional workout. And that it was! It was a very
steep climb, but so pretty. We were accompanied by the New Zealand
team, and it was good to get to know them a bit more. We timed the
weather nicely as well. As we were climbing, the wind was picking up,
the temperature was dropping and the rain clouds were slowly moving in.
At the top, we ate a quick lunch, took some pictures, and started the
decent. Just as we reached the bottom, it started to sprinkle, and by
the time we got back to our apartments, the heavens opened up.
Team
Tunnicliffe: Mary Rook, Liz Bower, Anna Tunnicliffe, Molly Vandemoer,
plus
Photographer:
(c) Debbie Capozzi, May 2010
Today is the first
day of the event and involves weigh-in, official practice, and
briefings. The temperature is still on the chilly side, but the wind is
up, and the sun is currently shining, so practice will be fun. There
are a lot of great teams here, twelve total, but seven from the top 10
in the ISAF
World Rankings. You can follow the results
on the regatta website.
I would like to thank Carmeuse and Trinity Yachts for their continued support of our campaign for the 2012 Olympics in London. I would also like to thank USSTAG for their continued support.
Sail Hard |
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.
