GBR Match Race Girls

Well today was mostly a waiting game for us. There was a little bit of breeze this morning so the repechage group got out in good time and by 1pm we had finished our final two matches of the gold fleet, finishing with one win and one loss to win the group and go through to the quarter finals ranked 1st.

Next up on the race course was the Silver group and that was when the wind started to shift and die. The plan was for us to go back out on the water at 3.30pm to race two of our quarter final matches however after we had waited around for 5 hours the race committee final postponed for the day at 6pm. Apart from the poor forecast, tomorrow is now shaping up to potentially be a big big day with both quarter and semi finals.

In our quarters we are against Tulloch (USA) which we are quite pleased about as it has been quite a while since we raced her in the Elliotts so it will be interesting to see how we match up. In the other quarters, Skudina vs Leroy, Le Berre vs Barkow and Echegoyen vs Groeneveld.

Lucy

…but a good one!

We sailed three races in our gold fleet round robin today in a dying breeze at the Semaine Olympique Française. There was quite a lot of action one way or another, with penalties going both for and against us, and a very close finish in one match. However we were pleased to finish the day with a clean sheet, and therefore leading the gold fleet on 3–0 along with Sally Barkow (USA).

Tomorrow we will do our final two races of the gold fleet, which determines the seeding order for the Quarter Finals. If the wind holds out, we may begin the first quarter-final matches tomorrow afternoon as well.

Cheers,

Lucy.

Another good day for us today, two wins and one loss meant we have won our group and has therefore put us through to the gold fleet and quarter finals. Second and also going through to the gold fleet in our group was the Dutch team helmed by Groeneveld, and Le Berre (FRA) and Abrahamsen (DEN) go through to the repechage.

We are really pleased with how we were sailing today. In the starts we were much stronger than yesterday and we seemed fairly quick again. The final race against Le Berre was our only loss and only frustrating moment because after a great start where we pushed them over the line early, we had a good few lengths lead until the final run where we got caught up with another match and missed our opportunity to go the favoured side of the run. We were then also unable to stay with our opponent and although we were still just ahead when we came back together, we were soon swapped by the three boats giving them the chance to pass just before the finish…not too flash!

Tomorrow we’ll be on second again for three races in the gold fleet which will seed us for the quarter finals.

Watch this space, Lucy.

It was a good day 1 for us today at the French Olympic Sailing Week in Hyeres. Once again we are in group C so it was a late start and late finish for us with our first race getting underway around 3pm and finishing up about 6pm. Our opponents for the day were Abrahamsen (DEN), Mota (BRA), Hazard (NZL) and Kjellberg (SWE) and despite a few shaky moments pre start (mainly my fault!) we won all four races by a comfortable margin and are finishing the day pretty happy all round.

Unfortunately it looks like today may have been our best day for breeze looking at the weeks forecast. Tomorrow is looking light and ,meant to be dropping throughout the day so we’ll hope it stays in long enough for our group to finish our last three round robin races. We’ll be racing two of the French teams, Bossard and Le Berre and Groeneveld (NED) and will try to keep you posted but full results can be found here.

Lucy x