GBR Match Race Girls

Much better day 2 of the Olympic Test Event today for us with four wins out of four! See the video round-up below as Kate talks us through the day…

Racing the Portuguese, Swedish, Australians and Danish we again had really strong starts today and we pleased to convert them in the reasonably easy wins. The Russians and Finnish are having really good regattas so far with 8 and 7 wins respectively then it is all quite close in the middle of the group so tomorrow’s final races of the round robin will be critical for the seeding into the quarter finals. We just have three races left starting at 12 tomorrow against the French, Germans and Americans so we’re looking forward to some close racing as we have no major preferences as to who we’d like to race in the quarter finals.

In the boat park its starting to feel a bit more like a regatta now…finally! The RSX men and women start tomorrow which will be good as it feels slightly odd being the only ones racing at the moment. It was the final day of measurement today and the British team look to be in good shape so its a nice chilled atmosphere in the camp!

Unfortunately looks like we might get some rain tomorrow… desperately hoping this isn’t the end of summer! However are plenty of sunny photos from day 1 and 2 in our test event gallery for you to have a look at :)

Lucy

Well folks we have definitely had better days on the water than we had today for the first day of racing at the Olympic Test Event, however we are not too down about it, see the video round up below as Annie talks us through the day.

After a bit of a postponement, a sea breeze started filling about 11.00 however it never really build much above 6–7 knots so all four of our races were very light and shifty and unfortunately this meant a couple of small mistakes cost us a lot in the racing. Our order of races went Spanish, Finnish, Dutch and Russians today, all very good teams in the light breeze so it was never going to be an easy day.

We are really pleased with our starting from today having been in control of ever match in the sequence and at start time however finishing with one win and then three losses we know its going to take more than good starts to win this regatta!

Overall we were sailing well and know where we went wrong so to be honest we are ready and raring to go straight out and start the next races now… though as I look out the window there isn’t a breath of wind in the Harbour so on second thoughts we might wait until 11.00 tomorrow…

Wish us luck!

Lucy

Tomorrow will be the first day of racing for us at the Olympic Test Event in Weymouth. We’ll be the first class to start racing and it will be as close as we’ll get in similarity to racing at the Olympics next year, so we’re really looking forward to getting started.

Yesterday we had our first day sailing in the brand new Olympic boats and the venue at Portland has been taken over by LOCOG and looking quite different to usual. It all makes the Olympics next year feel that bit closer!

Today we have another official practice session in the boats then round robin racing starts for us inside Portland Harbour tomorrow at 11.00. With there only being 12 teams here and for the Games, we’ll do a complete round robin racing every other team in the first three days. We’ll then have a day off and the format is then quarter finals, semis and finally the finals aren’t until late next week. It is the longest event we have every taken part of in terms of number of days between start and finish, but in terms of number of races overall it is quite a bit shorter than our World Cup events. This means we’ll have to get used to having days off in the next two weeks… not something we’re used to with our racing usually! The forecast this week has a bit of the ‘its not normally like this’ feel to it, but next week is looking a touch more ‘normal’.

Check out the video interview below to find out how Sparky rates our chances, and a bit of an update from the three of us…

We’ll try and keep you posted as much as possible, bye for now though.

Lucy x