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Credit: Annie, Ally, Mary Rook and I are settled now in Porto Alegre, Brazil, ready for the start of the ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final. In the women’s division teams represent nine countries, FRA, DEN, AUS, POR, ITA, USA, BRA, ARG…and us. With both the women’s and men’s events running at the same time we’ll be sailing in two groups and half days so tomorrow we’re on the morning slot – ladies first of course!
We’ve had a couple of days in Brazil now getting used to the heat (about 30˚ in the middle of the day), but we definitely still have a bit of a language barrier with our lack of Portugese! This morning we had our practice slot in the J24s we’ll be using for the event and funnily enough they aren’t much different from the ones we’ve been training in back at home in Poole. Conditions seem like they’ll be quite light with flat water and potentially huge shifts so I’m sure racing will be tight and tricky.
So, registration and weighing-in done, practice time used, opening ceremony completed, now time to start racing, we’ll let you know how it goes!
Lucy x
Tags: 2009, ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final, J/24, Porto Alegre
