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Video from Delta Lloyd

Thursday 4th June, 2009

Even though the racing finished on Sunday, the media team at the Delta Lloyd Regatta have been hard at work this week collating photographs and editing video footage.

They’ve produced the following coverage of the 5th and deciding match of the finals between the British and German teams, tied on two wins apiece before this winner takes all showdown, and subsequent on-the-dock interview with the winning skipper Lucy Macgregor.

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Tags: 2009, Delta Lloyd OCR, ISAF Sailing World Cup, Medemblik, Video, Yngling

Team Lucy Macgregor on the news

Monday 1st June, 2009

The British Match Racing Team of Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Ally Martin were featured on this evening’s BBC News in the following round-up of the Delta Lloyd Regatta.

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Video from Sailing TV

Saturday 25th April, 2009

The nice chaps at Sailing TV have been in touch to let us know about their new site, which has a wide selection of sailing video from top international events.

In the 2008 archive there are two great reports from events we attended last year, giving an ideal introduction to Match Racing and showing what it’s all about!

First up is a two-part video from the Troia Women’s Portugal Match Cup, where we finished 2nd in October 2008. These boats are exciting, responsive and challenging to sail, and coupled with difficult conditions at the venue it just goes to show it’s not over until you’ve crossed the line!

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(it’s the first time we’ve sailed these boats too!)

Second, the Lysekil Womens Match, from earlier last year where we finished 4th. In 2009 Lysekil will be hosting the Women’s World Match Racing Championships, where we will be competing again at this fantastic venue.

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Parts 2, 3 and 4 of this video report are on Sailing TV.

We hope we can bring you more coverage as the 2009 season progresses…

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ISAF Nations Cup — The Final

Saturday 28th March, 2009

Internet problems in Brazil apparently so here’s a quick summary from the text messages received tonight…

The first race of the finals was held yesterday evening in 20+ kts of breeze, the girls got off to a good start 1–0 up against world #1 Claire Leroy.

Unfortunately the wind gods were not on side today, again bringing very light and flukey conditions. From what we understand, Claire took the first race today to level up 1–1. Lucy was leading in the following two races, but despite best efforts they were unable to keep the highly experience French team at bay. Final result 3–1 to Claire.

So Claire Leroy takes the Nations Cup title for the second time, having won the previous event in 2006. However our girls have achieved another very credible result and are continuing to get ever closer to knocking Leroy off the top spot :)

More from Lucy and Co in the next couple of days, but in the meantime check out this video of the action in the early stages of the event…