Rolex Miami OCR Day 1 — so far so good!

Tuesday 27th January, 2009

Waking up to sun and wind meant racing got underway just after 10.00 this morning for the first day of the Rolex Olympic Classes Regatta here in Miami. With two round robins scheduled there is plenty of racing to get in, so the 7 flights completed today were a great start to the event.

Today we raced against 2 American, 1 Italian, 1 Spanish and 1 fellow British team (Mary Rook, Nicky Macgregor and Bex Marriot) and sailed consistently well to finish the day with 5 wins out of 5. All of our races had common themes about them coming off the line equal but by having great speed and conservative tactics upwind we were able to extend to the windward mark and continue to lead around every mark. With the SB3′s asymmetric spinnakers there is a slight change in tactics from ‘the norm’ downwind, but we made a good step forward today and we’re ready to hit the ground running tomorrow morning!

Day 2 will see us up against some of the higher ranked teams to finish the first round robin. Results throughout the day should go up on the event website.

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