GBR Match Race Girls

Lucy, Nicky and Ally took silver today at the Delta Lloyd OCR in Medemblik, Holland. After defeating Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou 3–0 in the semi-finals, the GBR Match Race Girls faced Anne-Claire Le Berre of France in a hotly contested final which went to the the full 5 matches.

Having started on the back foot going 0–2 down, the GBR girls fought back using all of their match racing experience and employing some aggressive tactics to bring it back to 2–2. In the last winner-takes-all deciding match Team Macgregor were ahead, but alas it was not to be as Anne-Claire Le Berre picked up some extra breeze to take the win and the overall title. GBR 2nd, Echegoyen (SPA) 3rd, Bekatorou (GRE) 4th.

More from the girls soon… or check out the full video coverage of the finals (01:28:54)

A long day for us today but the good news is we’re through to the semi finals for the Delta Lloyd Regatta. Our first two races this morning were to finish the gold fleet round robin (the seeding round for the quarter finals) and two more wins put us through in first place carrying 5 wins out of 5. A long wait while the silver and bronze fleet races were finished saw the breeze go round in circles and up and down like a yo yo and funnily enough we were not looking forward to going on next! Once our turn came however the breeze settled down a bit in both direction and speed, giving us good conditions for our best of five series against the Australian team helmed by Nicky Souter.

The first two races were very close with us behind to start with but then taking the lead on first run in both races and gaining from there. In the second we gave ourselves a bit of a head start by getting a penalty against them prestart and leading off the line to finish 3–0 ahead. There was a slight pause in our sail in while the Aussies protested the race committee however that was soon dismissed.

Tomorrow we’ll have the semi finals where we will face Sofia Bekatorou of Greece, and then hopefully the finals! The other semi is Tamara Echegoyen (Spain) -vs- Anne-Claire Le Berre (France).

Looking forward to tomorrow, there may well be live GPS tracking and/or video on the event website, and updates on twitter.

Lucy x

Although we put our wet wetsuits back on this afternoon and went to support Mary Rook’s team in the repecharge, we ended up not racing again. Tomorrow we’ll be on first for the end of our gold fleet round robin and then into the quarter finals.

Stay tuned… follow the updates on twitter or check out the Delta Lloyd Regatta website.

Today’s schedule of 3 repechage races, 3 gold races and 3 silver races here at the Delta Lloyd Regatta in Medemblik, Holland, has been helped along by nicely by a 14–18 knot north-westerly, the first decent breeze we’ve had in the last three events.

This morning we kept a clean sheet after defeating Ekatrina Skudina (RUS), Anna  Kjellberg (SWE) and Sofia Bekatorou (GRE) in conditions we’ve been looking forward to since the European regatta season started! We’re currently leading the gold group round-robin as the only team on three wins, and are waiting to go and sail our final two gold fleet races.

Ally x