Rolex Miami OCR — Day 4 « GBR Match Race Girls

Rolex Miami OCR — Day 4

Friday 30th January, 2009

After a nervous half hour of 0 knots, the breeze stayed in long enough this afternoon to complete the second round robin ready for the semi finals and finals tomorrow.

This morning seems a long time ago! We had a slightly frustrating day in the end, even though we still won all but three of our 22 round robin matches. Short courses meant the start was everything today, and sure enough the starts we won we extended our lead to comfortable wins. However, in the starts we didn’t win, we had a little more to do! Luckily we’ve put a lot of work this week into our pre start communication linked with our timing and tactics and it feels like everyday we are making great progress for the future… and for tomorrow!

Finishing second after the double round robin to the Italian team helmed by Giulia Conti puts us up against the current third placed team of Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen (DEN) while Conti is matched up against Genevieve Tulloch’s team (USA). The semi finals and finals are scheduled to be best of 5 races and the forecast is showing a bit of wind for the afternoon, perhaps reaching 20–25 knots so the racing should certainly be exciting!