Argo Group Gold Cup — Day 1

Tuesday 5th October, 2010

The Match Race Girls competed in three matches today in the Argo Group Gold Cup, including the very first match of the event, though sadly that turned out to be a loss against Bjorn Hansen (world #9).

The second match against Phil Robertson (#21) was extremely close, as you can see in the video below, however despite leading around the course Robertson’s experience and familiarity with the IOD yachts kept him close enough to the girls to prevent them taking their pre-start penalty just before the finish.

Match 3 was against Mathieu Richard, world #3, the top seed and current MRWT leader. The press release says it all… Macgregor takes Mathieu Richard’s Scalp in Bermuda :)

http://www.wmrt.com/news/98-argo-group-gold-cup/11371-lucy-macgregor-takes-mathieu-richards-scalp-in-bermuda.html

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And on to the Argo Bermuda Gold Cup

Monday 4th October, 2010

It has been an amazing couple of weeks for us, becoming World Champions was an awesome end to what has been a successful but tricky year. The Worlds was a big focus for us so in many ways marks the end of our main season, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped racing!

After a week of holiday for Annie and I in New York we are now in Bermuda preparing to race in the Argo Bermuda Gold Cup, the penultimate event on the World Match Racing Tour. Sailing in the IOD boats they have here, a classic 1930s design 33ft sloop, and racing against the top men’s teams from around the world (including our coach, Ian Williams) will be somewhat different from our Elliott 6m racing but a great experience and I’m sure there are many valuable lessons to be learned.

We have been training over the last couple of days and have our final practice today with our crew for the week Peter Martin and Chris Britten, two local guys which is a bit of a change from our usual all female team! With 22 teams competing the format will be similar to the ISAF Sailing World Cup events we do in the women’s tour, three groups from which the top two go through to the quarters and the next two through to the repechage round.

There will be a huge amount of coverage of this prestigious event, keep an eye on wmrt.com, and as ever we’ll keep you posted!

Lucy

Argo Group Gold Cup Preview Video —

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Match Cup Sweden — Day 3

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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No racing for us on day 3

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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