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Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta Day 1
Monday 9th August, 2010
A short, successful day for us today as we just had three races in our group and won all three. All the top teams are here in Weymouth for the final leg of the ISAF Sailing World Cup Series so I’m sure it will be an exciting week.
Unfortunately with the groups going on rankings all three GBR boats have ended up in the same group so despite it being an international competition, our first two races were against the teams of Wilson and Archer. A close race for us first off got us into the swing of things and we were pleased to finish with three straight wins when the first round is so important for us in progressing through to the later stages of the event.
Le Berre (FRA) and Tunnicliffe (USA) also won all three of their races in our group so it will all come down to tomorrows racing to see who gets through to gold fleet. We’re scheduled to have our final four races in this group tomorrow about midday.
Take a look at the event website www.skandiasailforgoldregatta.co.uk for full results .
Lucy
Preparations in full swing
Tuesday 3rd August, 2010
Following on from our success last weekend at the RYA Grade 2 International Regatta, Annie, Kate and I are back training today preparing for next weeks Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta. The weekends racing was a good test for us to see how our training has been going over the last couple of weeks. Generally we are pleased with the position we are in going into next week and there are just a few small areas to work in the next few days.
The entry list has now been finalised and all the top teams will be here so defending our top spot in the ISAF World Cup Series will not be easy but we’re certainly looking forward to it!
Lucy
Good day at the office!
Wednesday 28th July, 2010
One of those days today which made me remember why I love doing what we do! We had a great day of training in gorgeous conditions, sun and 13 knots building to 19 later on. We squeezed inside Portland Harbour (in the small spots left over from the 500 oppies) and started with some pre start exercises against Sofia Bekatorou’s team (GRE) and finished with some actioned packed racing against Sally Barkow’s team (USA).
Training again tomorrow then we have a three day Grade 2 event as a warm up to the Skandia Sail for Gold regatta, the final stop on the 2009/2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup tour.
Lucy
Perfect conditions in Weymouth
Monday 26th July, 2010
Our training for our next event, Skandia Sail for Gold is well underway now and we are enjoying perfect conditions for our training in Weymouth. Annie, Kate and I have some specific areas to work on before the start of the event on the 9th August however mostly we will just be race training from now on and next weekend we have a Grade 2 regatta here to test preparations!
In the recent release of the Women’s Match Racing World Rankings we were thrilled to hold on to our no 1 spot and we are now really looking forward to racing on home waters again. Currently we are training alongside 500 optimists doing their National Championships and I don’t think WPNSA is going to get quieter any time soon!
Lucy
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