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| Hot Day Of Practice At Boat Santa Maria Cup | | Print | |
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June 1, 2010
Annapolis, MD Team Tunnicliffe arrived late last night and early this morning for the first day of the Boat US Santa Maria Cup in Annapolis, MD. Ten teams are here from four countries for this Grade 1 event, with racing scheduled to start tomorrow morning (now this morning). 
Molly and I arrived late last night but woke up early to hit the gym with our trainer Harry from Annapolis Sailing Fitness. With Harry living in Annapolis and Molly and I living far away, it's hard to fit in workouts with him, so we take the opportunity to work with him when we can. Harry worked us hard, mainly focusing on our upper bodies today, with lots of push ups, core work, and pull ups. It was a great way to start our day, and definitely woke us up.
After the gym, Molly and I met up with
Debbie and Liz for regatta weigh in and registration. After weighed
in, we went to eat breakfast. Our coach, Dave Dellenbaugh, arrived
around 10am. We discussed what we wanted to work on and headed out to
the river to practice. The wind was shifty, but good so we had a great
opportunity to do what we wanted. Towards the end of the practice, the storms started to roll in,
so we decided to play it safe and head in to grab some lunch.
Around 3:30 we headed back out for the pro-am regatta. The local J/22 sailors came out and the ten women's teams at the regatta raced one fleet race. It was fun to fleet race again, albeit a bit different to being on the line with that many boats, but we managed. It was also one last opportunity to practice our boat handling and tactics in a pressure situation. The day ended with the opening ceremony and a reception in downtown Annapolis. We socialized with the sailors and said "hi" to the umpires we hadn't seen earlier in the day. We wrapped up the evening with a quick run to the grocery store, then headed home to bed. We're up early again tomorrow morning with a 6:30am work out scheduled and then competitors' meeting at 8am. Racing is scheduled to start at 9am. You can follow the regatta on the regatta website. We would like to thank our sponosors Carmeuse and Trinity Yachts for their continued support of our campaingn for the 2012 Olympics in London. We would also like to thank USSTAG for their support, and Annapolis Sailing Fitness and Boatyard Bar and Grill for their support of our team during this event. Sail Hard, Anna Team Tunnicliffe |
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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.
