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August 21, 2010
Detroit, MI With rainy skies and fickle breeze, only the last three flights of the round robin were completed today at the Toyota International Match Race for the Detroit Cup. Because of this, our team could only sit and watch and hope for the right people to win races to secure us a high enough ranking at the end of the round robin.
Racing Abandoned For The Day
Photo: (c) Team Tunnicliffe, August 2010
Early
this morning the organizers decided that if quaterfinal racing hadn't
started by 2pm, then the quarters would be cut from the program and
racing would continue only for the top four teams. Because of that
announcement, we were on the edge of the semi's cut, depending on how
the people racing today finished. As it worked out, we ended up in a
four way tie for third place, and were second in the tie, giving us 4th
seed and a spot in the semi-finals.
Not A Good Sign When The Course Marks Are Still At The Dock
Photo: (c) Team Tunnicliffe, August 2010
This afternoon, Dave Perry, who won the round-robin, got to pick against whom he wanted to race in tomorrow's semi's. He chose Taylor Canfield from the US Virgin Islands, the number 2 seed after the round robin. That left us racing the number 3 seed, Laurie Jury from New Zealand. The race committee did attempt to start the semi's today, but after getting out on the race course, the wind couldn't settle down and didn't fill much above 3kts, so racing was called for the day and tomorrow will host the semi's and the finals. The regatta is being recorded live online at sailinganarchy.com and justin.tv. You can also check out the results 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, 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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