Wednesday 7th July, 2010
The third day of Stena Match Cup Sweden saw the completion of the Women’s round-robin stage, once again providing close competition in glorious conditions. After 3 more races Lucy, Annie and Kate have secured the top spot on the hotly contested leader board with 6 wins.
Tomorrow afternoon the quarter finals will be held, but unlike in the ISAF Sailing World Cup at this event the top place competitors have the added benefit/agonising decision of choosing their opponents!
The following video summarises today’s action, starting with the men and then covering the women about 1/2 way though. The event website will be carrying a live video stream so you can keep up to date with all the action tomorrow through to the finals on Saturday.
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Tuesday 27th April, 2010
We always knew we were going to have some waiting around this morning, as we were scheduled on the water after the repechage had done 3 flights, but the flat calm that greeted us this morning meant it was a longer wait than expected. We did make it out, but only at 16.30 to watch the sole flight sailed in the repecharge before the wind shut off again. We had to wait until almost 18.00 before our racing was officially abandoned for the day. The plan for tomorrow has yet to be announced, but we think they will run more of the repecharge before we get a chance to race.
Fingers crossed for more wind tomorrow!
Ally x
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Monday 26th April, 2010
Tricky conditions in Hyeres today for our second day of the Semaine Olympique Francaise. Our group was sent out on time just after 9.00 this morning but we were greeted by 1 knot when we finally drifted our way to the race course. After 3hrs of drifting the race committee finally gave in and sent us ashore where after another hour wait we were sent back out on the water again. This time though we were greeted by a fickle 6 knots which they sent the racing off in. Our first race was probably our strongest, leading from start to finish then our second and third races were extremely close winning the first by half a boat length and loosing the next by not much more!
With 5 wins and 1 loss we have finished second in our group to the French team helmed by Le Berre, which automatically puts us through to the gold fleet and quarter finals.
The gold fleet will start tomorrow after the final 3 group C matches and the first 3 repecharge races. It was a tricky day today with light, shifty breeze, certainly hoping for more wind tomorrow!
Lucy x
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Tuesday 30th March, 2010
Sorry for the slight delay but it was a long night last night, finally getting to sit down for dinner at 10pm!
After a wait onshore for breeze, group C started the day off in a light southerly breeze and it wasn’t until after 4pm that we were out into the boats to complete our round robin. Our final four races were against Skudina (RUS), Barkow (USA), Bossard (FRA) and Le Berre (FRA) and all started with fairly unconventional starts but all wining starts for us. Drawing a penalty against Skudina’s crew pre start meant round the course we were able to keep close and low risk to take the win. Unfortunately that was also all we needed to do in our second race against Barkow after giving her a penalty pre start and leading around the top mark, however a mistake by me towards the bottom of the run equalled out the penalties and lost us the lead… an expensive mistake as we were never able to make up the distance again before the finish.
With eight boat round robins as we have in our first round, every match is crucial because the only way to guarantee qualifying through to the gold fleet is not to loose any races. The next two races against the French teams were therefore must wins for us. In both we controlled the pre start from entry to to start gun (and even hoisted our spinnaker for one!). A slight mistake against Bossard lost us the control over the first beat however a strong run where we just broke the overlap with her in time to round the leeward mark in front gave us control and the ability to extend and take the win. Settling down again we made our lives a bit easier for ourselves in the final race against Le Berre’s team making her stop dead in the water at the start gun, and gaining on every leg to take the win and second place in our group.
From here the top two from each group qualify directly to the gold fleet (a seeding round before the quarter finals). The 3rd and 4th place finishers from each group go through to a repechage, from which the top two teams will make it through to make up the last two quarter finalists.
Today’s forecast is for much more wind and currently all fleets are waiting ashore in about 25knots. The breeze is meant to drop throughout the day so hopefully the repechage group will be sent out soon for their first three flights followed by three flights for us in the gold fleet. We are certainly looking forward to racing in wind and waves!
Lucy x
Video diary update from Ally:
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