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| Good Beginnings Day 1 : 3-0, Skandia SFG | | Print | |
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August 09, 2010
We started racing bright and early this morning at the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta
here in Weymouth. Our group, group A, headed out to the race course
around 9am for their three races for the day. After getting out the
pre-regatta jitters in the first pre-start, we went on to finish our day
3-0. Tomorrow we are scheduled to finish the round robin with four
races.
Team Tunnicliffe, Boat 5, Flying The Spinnaker Downwind
Photo: (c) Fried Elliott, August 2010
It was a beautiful day for sailing, at least for us, as the breeze slowly built to a nice 8kt south westerly. The sun was in and out, but the temperature wasn't that cold, so it was very pleasant. We are racing in a little bay that is surrounded by the marina wall, and a hill with a fort on it. It makes for a slightly challenging race course because of the wind shifting around the various obstructions, but the girls did a great job at putting us in the right place, and we came out on top at every mark.
We were finished by noon today, which allowed us to do a thorough debreif for the
day and make dinner ahead of time. This meant we were able to fully
relax during the evening. We followed how the rest of Team USA did on
the internet and saw that overall, they had a successful day too.
Tomorrow we will be on live tracker, so you can follow the races online. There is also a live blog that updates the action from the various race courses. You can find both of these and the results on at the regatta website.
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 US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) and its sponsors for their 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.
