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Thursday 19th March, 2009
Today we’re setting off on our long journey to Porto Alegre, Brazil, to compete as the Northern European representative in the ISAF Nations Cup.
To give you a taste of what is in store, see the latest ISAF press release or take a look at this video report from the 2006 event…
Friday 6th March, 2009
Today the online sailing site “The Daily Sail” carried a feature article on the new Olympic Discipline of Women’s Match Racing, and the top British prospect of Lucy Macgregor and her team.
Check out the latest match racing news at thedailysail.com, or you can download the article as a PDF.
Wednesday 4th March, 2009
The latest World Rankings were released by ISAF today. As we’re now counting points from the maximum 8 events permitted, I’m delighted to have risen to 3rd in the world rankings.
“The biggest move at the top again comes from British skipper Lucy Macgregor, who completed the podium with a third place finish in Miami. The 2008 European Women’s Match Racing Champion only broke in to the world top 10 in October last year, but hasn’t taken long to make a big impact and shake up the more experienced names around her. Her bronze medal performance at the second event of the ISAF Sailing World Cup boosts her up two places in this release to a career-best Ranking of #3.”
— ISAF, 4th March 2009
Wednesday 11th February, 2009
The next few weeks we’ll be braving it out on the freezing cold Poole Harbour to prepare for our next event, the ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final.
The ISAF Nations Cup is a global competition to find the world’s top match racing nation, and to develop match racing infrastructure around the world. This year the event will take place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from the 23rd–28th March. Our team for the event will be Annie, Ally, Mary Rook and myself and we’ll be racing in J24 class yachts. Luckily we have some club members at Parkstone Yacht Club helping out by allowing us to train in their boats in the lead up to the event. Thank you to them!
Our training will consist of some boat handling in the J24s, getting used to the quickest way of sailing around the course, how they handle under slow speed and also perhaps most importantly, some match racing against some of the male match race teams in the country. Having competed at the J24 World Championships in Sardinia last year with Annie and Mary we already have good knowledge of racing the boats, although match racing them with 4 crew will be a little different to our fleet racing with 6 crew then (yes it was VERY cramped!).
Bring on March! Lucy x
