Credit: Wander Roberto
Credit: Wander Roberto
Credit: Matias Capizzano
Credit: Kim Wolf
Credit: Kim Wolf
Credit: Richard Langdon
Credit: Sander van der Borch
Tuesday 26th January, 2010
Another great day for us today as we finished our group round robin 1st — without dropping a single race!
We are definitely through to the quarter finals, but will start a gold group round robin tomorrow to determine the positions for the quarter final play-offs. We’ll keep you posted!
Lucy x
Monday 25th January, 2010
A strong start for us on day one with 4 wins out of 4!
After a really good race against Mandy Mulder’s team (NED) where we gave them a penalty on the first beat, the rumours of a big storm spread and we were brought in off the water for an hour and a half before finally getting out again around 3pm for 3 more races. Our next win was against the Finnish team of Chita Wahlroos, and then we had some excitement in our third race when during the pre-start Uli Schuemann’s team (GER) got stuck on the anchor of the committee boat and then later in the race were black flagged (disqualified) to prevent further damage to their boom which was damaged in the hit. So a quiet race for us there, and then into our final race of the day against the American team helmed by Katie Lovell. During the pre start we were able to give them a penalty and then with Ally calling us up to the line we had a good start and extended from there!
Tomorrow the Race Committee will start group C first for 4 matches and then we’ll be out again from around 11.00 for the final 3 races of our round robin. With 3 teams all on 4 wins at the moment, I’m sure it’ll be an exciting day!
For full results go to http://rmocr.ussailing.org/Results.htm, or look out for updates on the RolexMiamiOCR Twitter feed.
Sunday 24th January, 2010
We’re just in from our final practice session before the start of the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta tomorrow. With 24 entries in the Match Racing, the fleet have been split into 3 groups of 8 for the initial round robins, the idea being that each group will sail at least 3 flights each day. In our group we have some very good competition including two American teams, both Dutch teams and a German, Swedish and Finnish team. The forecast is looking good for the week with 15+ knots expected tomorrow, and our group should be on the water racing by early afternoon (we’re 5 hours behind UK).
We’ll let you know how it goes!
Lucy
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Friday 22nd January, 2010
We have just had two beautiful days in Miami, however unfortunately we’ve not been sailing! The boats have been unavailable while they are prepared for the Rolex Miami OCR, so it has ‘forced’ us to have two days off to go shopping, visit the cinema and enjoy the sun… it’s a hard life!
Our training over the last week in the American boats and in this venue has been really useful, and we have gained a lot from it even though we had very light conditions towards the end. After a couple of days rest and relaxation we can’t wait to get racing, which starts on Monday, however before that each team has two official practice sessions, along with registration, weigh-in, etc to completed over the course of the weekend.
Lucy
