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| Cold First Day In Newport, RI at NYYC Women's Match Race Regatta | | Print | |
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May 12, 2010
It was a cold and rainy start to the
first day of racing at the New York YC Women's Match
Race Clinic and Regatta. Despite the weather, we had a great day on
the water and finished the day 7-1. Handing us our loss for the day,
and tight on our transom with results, are our USSTAG teammates, Genny
Tulloch and team at 6-2.
Team Tunnicliffe (Debbie, Liz, Molly, Anna) Working The Shifts And Current
Photo: Dave Johnson, USSTAG, May 2010
We completed a full round robin and the first race of the second round. We had challenging conditions, with a shifty wind that was slowly swinging left all day. On top of that, we had current flowing one way to start the day and then it switched half way through as the tide changed. However, in spite of these conditions, the team did a great job of positioning us in the best places to take advantage of the shifts. We had some great pre-starts, and some close races. We learned some good lessons, and are looking forward to racing tomorrow.
We came immediately from Calpe, Spain to
Newport on Sunday and started the clinic part of this event at 8am the
next morning. Our flights back from Spain to the USA were again
affected by the volcano. Each of our flights were delayed from 2-4
hours. We were re-routed so that instead of flying the usual 8 hour
route across the Atlantic, we had to fly north through France and
England, and then further north to go around the volcano. As a result,
we missed our connections when we landed in the USA and it all made
for a very long day. However, we were happy that we made it as there
had been a rumor going around the airport that our flight was
cancelled.
We have had two days of clinic which were
of great assistance in getting us used to the boats again and for
practicing specific parts of a race on which we wanted to work. We had
great coaches, both Dave Perry, Dave Dellenbaugh, and Henry Menin,
along with Tony Rey and Colin Gordon. They all taught us a great deal,
and at the same time we were learning important information about this
venue; the venue of this year's Women's Match Racing World
Championships.
Tomorrow, the plan is to finish the second round robin and start the semi-finals. Unfortunately there are no results posted on the regatta website. We would like to thank our sponsors 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.
