Loving the weather

Tuesday 29th June, 2010

Am I in the UK still? Since returning from Kiel last Thursday we have had fantastic weather and I’m hoping it is going to stay for our next training session starting tomorrow in Weymouth. This weekend I had the chance to do some fleet racing for once, sailing with Louise Morton on Morty’s Quarter Toner ‘Anchor Challenge’ (instead of her sister-ship ‘Espada’). We had a lovely weekend on the Solent with great sea breezes each day, and most importantly we showed the guys how it should be done by winning class 3.

Tomorrow the squad are back down to Weymouth for 5 days training before our team heads off to the Stena Line Match Cup Sweden which starts on Monday. This year for the first time the Women’s event will be held in Elliott 6Ms instead of the DS37s which the Open fleet will be racing. We are looking forward to competing in a non World Cup Regatta again for a bit of a change!

Lucy

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Not such a good day at the office

Thursday 24th June, 2010

Well we have finally reached home after a long road trip in the Transit Van back from Kiel and I’m afraid the final day was not such a good one for us. Going into the day 2–1 up in our quarter finals we were looking to win one more against Tulloch (USA) to qualify through to the finals however it was not to be, in more light and shifty conditions we didn’t quite get the starts we wanted and were unable to get back to challenge the lead.

An 8th place was a disappointing end to a good week for us really, but it has highlighted further areas we can improve on and we’ll get straight to work on them next week in training! In the finals Skudina (RUS) beat Leroy (FRA) to win overall and Tunnicliffe (USA) won the petite finals.

A few days off for me now which I’ll be racing the Quarter Tonner ‘Espada’ in, and then we’ll be training again towards the end of next week. Good to be home though and watch a bit of Wimbledon!

Lucy x

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Hoping for breeze on day 4

Tuesday 22nd June, 2010

With very little breeze yesterday we only got 7 flights in on the match racing course so the organisers are starting to get quite tight on schedule to fit all the racing in. In the Gold fleet we managed to get just three flights in, and unfortunately they were not such good ones for us! The number of boats passing our course throughout the day is making the water extremely choppy for us and that turned three even starts in to losses for us.

Currently the repechage group are out finishing their round robin, then the silver fleet will be on before we’re out to finish our gold fleet round robin and begin the quarter finals.

Let’s hope for a little more breeze today, I’m sure the 470s and Stars that haven’t raced for 2 days will be!

Lucy x

Update: after another long day on the water, we’re 2–1 up in our Quarter Final. Follow all the action on the final day tomorrow at the Kieler Woche website with live GPS tracking.

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Day 2 in Kiel

Sunday 20th June, 2010

Day 2 in Kiel brought some rain, not much wind, and lots of chop! Several classes didn’t get any racing in at all.

But we survived, 3–1 today so through to gold fleet with 6 wins out of 7. We’re 2nd in our group behind Anna Tunnicliffe (USA), who we lost to on final run… agh!

Tomorrow we shall sail the gold fleet, to determine seeding for the quarter finals, but the forecast is sadly once again looking very light…

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