Changing climates

Monday 21st November, 2011

Within The space of just a few days we are going to be experiencing completely different climates this week! This weekend at Queen Mary Reservoir we had a disappointing weekend only getting to race 4 races in the UK Open National Finals due to no wind and thick fog yesterday but tomorrow morning we fly to Perth and will step off the plane in 37 degrees centigrade and 20 knots of wind, sometimes I think we lead a very strange life!

Unfortunately the lack of breeze this weekend meant the first round robin was not completed so results were messed up a little as people had raced a completely different number of races. Pleased to say though that Nick Cherry took the trophy home and although we were on the same number of losses, we ended up 3rd.

I have a feeling our next event in Perth, Australia is going to be a very different experience! 32 teams, country selection and The World Championships….It is going to be great so keep checking back here for details. We head out tomorrow for a week of training then racing starts on the 3rd December.

Lucy x

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Success at RYA qualifier 3

Tuesday 12th May, 2009

Jody Slater, Hannah Yuill and my younger sister Kate joined Ally and I this past weekend for the third RYA Women’s Match Racing Qualifier at Queen Mary, London.

Six teams attended the event and despite incredibly shifty and light breeze at times, the race committee did a great job to fit in two round robins, best of five semis and best of three finals.

With just one loss in the round robin stages we went through to the semis in first place and therefore being paired against Josie Gibson. With the breeze dying all the time it was heads out of the boat as races were never over until you’d crossed the line but we managed to secure a 3-0 win to go through to the finals. In the other semi-final it was a close battle between Mary Rook and Charlotte Lawrence’s teams. Going to four races, Rook ended up winning the series 3-1 to qualify through to the finals.

Remaining shifty for the finals, the start of each race was important to get the initial advantage and our crew did a great job at calling the shifts to ensure this. Once ahead we had great boat speed and won the finals 2-0 to win our second of two RYA qualifiers this year. This also qualifies us for a place at the ISAF Sailing World Cup event, Kiel week next month.

The final results were
1st Lucy Macgregor, Ally Martin, Jody Slater, Hannah Yuill, Kate Macgregor
2nd Mary Rook
3rd Josie Gibson
4th Charlotte Lawrence
5th Katie Archer
6th Hester Robinson

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