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World Cup Regatta No3

Friday 22nd April, 2011

We are now in Hyeres ready for ISAF World Cup No3 of 2011, The French Olympic Sailing Week. After taking nearly every mode of transport available, Annie, Kate and I arrived yesterday afternoon having had an awesome weeks training in Weymouth last week. Hyeres however has not given us such great conditions so far! We were meant to have training this morning however it has been blowing 25-30knots most of the day so practice for all the Match racing Teams was cancelled today and we’re hoping we’ll get out tomorrow.

Racing starts on Easter Sunday for us and despite the breeze over the last couple of days, it looks like it could be a light week. The fleet is looking strong so it should be a good week.

Lucy

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Tags: 2011, Elliott 6M, Hyeres, ISAF Sailing World Cup, Semaine Olympique Française, Weymouth

7th at Princess Sofia Regatta

Sunday 10th April, 2011

Well for the first event together in the Elliott for 8 months, it has been a good event for us this week. In terms of final result we are a little disappointed after loosing the quarter finals 2-3 to Sally Barkow (USA) however there are a lot areas which we have been training where we saw a big improvement in our sailing and when everything comes together we’ll be in good shape.

Today we head back home for some time off this week then we are back to Weymouth to start our training there before Hyeres. Hope it has warmed up a bit back there ;).

Lucy

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Tags: 2011, Elliott 6M, ISAF Sailing World Cup, Palma, Princess Sofia OCR

All even in quarters

Thursday 7th April, 2011

A long long day for us today at the Princess Sofia OCR, finally getting off the water at 8pm even though we only sailed 4 races!

After the final gold fleet round robin races, we were seeded against Barkow’s American team for the quarter finals. The series is first to three wins and today we broke even with the Americans at one win apiece so there is all to play for tomorrow!

In the other quarter finals, Tunnicliffe (USA) leads Hazard (NZL) 2–0, Leroy (FRA) is even at 1–1 with Le Berre (FRA), and Lehtinen (FIN) leads Hahalbrock (GER) 2–0.

Lucy

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Tags: 2011, Elliott 6M, ISAF Sailing World Cup, Palma, Princess Sofia OCR

Now the buisness begins!

Thursday 7th April, 2011

We’re going into day 4 of the Princess Sofia Trophy today and are aware that the the big races are just round the corner now. This morning, after the last two races of the repechage we will go out on the water to race in our final two races of the gold fleet to seed us for the quarter finals. Then this afternoon the race committee hope to run two of the quarter final races before completion tomorrow.

At the moment its looking a bit glassy out on the water so we’re hoping the sea breeze kicks in sooner than later to get the day underway.

Wish us luck!

Lucy