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August 31, 2011 
Coming Into The Offset Mark
Photo: (c) Rolex/Daniel Foster 2011
The
boats left the dock again this morning around 8:30 to head out to the
race course for a 10am start. As we sailed out, the wind died, and
looked terrible for a couple of hours. Finally around 11:15, it started
to fill in, but was still rather shifty for the race committee to start
us, but by noon, the conditions were looking great for racing.
We had a great start in race one near the middle of the line. We were punched out on the fleet and were able to sail where we wanted up the first beat. We rounded the top mark in third place, and were able to pass a boat downwind and move to second and secure that finish for the race. Race two again began with a great start. We headed to the top mark playing the shifts as the fleet tried to sort themselves out. We rounded the top in about 5th, and sailed a great run to move into first place. Upwind, we pulled ahead of the fleet with just one other boat left with us. The other boat managed to get around us just at the top, but we were right behind them and we knew we could make a move downwind. We sailed the shifts and pressure downwind until we were about even with them and then waited for the right moment to make our move on them. We gybed at them and forced them to the side of the course so they had no options left. We were able to pass them then and went on to win the race. The last race of the day was a bit closer at the top mark with a lot of boats rounding at once. We had a good rounding and again sailed a good downwind leg, but got ourselves on the outside of the correct gate mark and had to round in 4th at the bottom. We fought hard up the second beat to stay in touch with the second and third placed boats to give us a fighting chance with them on the downwind. We were able to pass one boat downwind and finish the day with a third place. We are very happy with the day and are looking forward to the three scheduled races for tomorrow, the last day of competition. The conditions currently look good and racing is set to start at 10am. You can check the scores online at the regatta website: US Sailing's 2011 Rolex International Womens' Keelboat Championship: http://riwkc.ussailing.org/RIWKC_Home.htm
We would very much like to thank our Title Sponsor, Maclaren, our Gold Level Sponsors 11th Hour Racing and Laser Performance, and our Bronze Level Sponsors Carmeuse, Trinity Yachts, and Chicago Match Race Center for their continued support of our campaign for the 2012 Olympic Games. We would also like to thank US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) and its sponsors for their continued support. Also, thank you to our private donors. Please remember that any and all donations/contributions to our campaign should be made payable directly to either The Sailing Foundation of New York (tax deductible) memo'd Anna Tunnicliffe, or to Anna Tunnicliffe. Sail Hard, And as usual, don't forget, email us your questions and comments. We love getting them and sharing our love of sailing and women's match racing.
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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.
