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August 19, 2010
Today was day one of the Toyota International Match Race for the Detroit Cup, an open Grade 2 event here in Detroit. We had a great day finishing our 5 races with a 5-0 record.
Dave Perry Handing Off Boat 7 To Team Tunnicliffe
Photo: (c) Joanna Tunnicliffe, August 2010
There are 12 teams competing in the regatta. Our team, consisting of me, Debbie Capozzi, Liz Bower, and Amanda Callahan, along with five other teams, sat out the first five flights of the day as six teams headed out to the water to start the regatta at 10am. Our group of six teams got to relax and watch the racing take place just off the waterfront of Bayview YC. With the windward mark just 200m from the wall, we got to see all the action. 
Setting Off Downwind Against The Current (Team Tunnicliffe:Boat 7)
Photo: (c) Joanna Tunnicliffe, August 2010
The conditions were great, but very puffy at times, which allowed the
boat behind to be able to make up distance on the lead boat downwind if
they played the breeze well. We were also fighting the current downwind
which made for long legs, and so giving the trailing boat an even
bigger advantage.
Around
1:30pm, the first six boats finished up their racing, and we headed out
to do our five races. We had some great races, our two closest being
against Taylor Canfield and Bill Hardesty. In both races, it came down
to a close call at the finish line, but my team did a great job and we
managed to hold on for the win.
Racing resumes tomorrow morning at 10am. We will be sitting out the
first three flights, and then hit the water for 6 races. There is video
coverage online at sailinganarchy.com and through (justin.tv) with commentary, along with live tracking too I think. The results can be seen at the regatta website too. (Have to open the PDF file.)
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, Anna Team Tunnicliffe
PS:
In an attempt to make these updates and this website more
user-friendly, if you have any question regarding terminology etc about
match racing that cannot be answered in the MR Simply Put section, please email us, via the Contact Page and we will do our best to explain. We really do want you to understand how it works and why we enjoy match racing so much.
PPS:
Just got in pictures from our visit to Monroe County's Special
Olympians, so thought we would include an extra photo over the next
couple of days.
Photo: (c) Tom Grime, August 2010
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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.
