Good day at the office!

Wednesday 28th July, 2010

One of those days today which made me remember why I love doing what we do! We had a great day of training in gorgeous conditions, sun and 13 knots building to 19 later on. We squeezed inside Portland Harbour (in the small spots left over from the 500 oppies) and started with some pre start exercises against Sofia Bekatorou’s team (GRE) and finished with some actioned packed racing against Sally Barkow’s team (USA).

Training again tomorrow then we have a three day Grade 2 event as a warm up to the Skandia Sail for Gold regatta, the final stop on the 2009/2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup tour.

Lucy

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Perfect conditions in Weymouth

Monday 26th July, 2010

Our training for our next event, Skandia Sail for Gold is well underway now and we are enjoying perfect conditions for our training in Weymouth. Annie, Kate and I have some specific areas to work on before the start of the event on the 9th August however mostly we will just be race training from now on and next weekend we have a Grade 2 regatta here to test preparations!

In the recent release of the Women’s Match Racing World Rankings we were thrilled to hold on to our no 1 spot and we are now really looking forward to racing on home waters again. Currently we are training alongside 500 optimists doing their National Championships and I don’t think WPNSA is going to get quieter any time soon!

Lucy

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Still #1

Thursday 10th June, 2010

The latest ISAF World Rankings have just been released and I’m pleased to say Annie, Ally and I are still holding the top spot!

After having Nicky Muller stand in for the the last regatta in Holland, we have been reunited with Annie this week and are having a really productive week training in Weymouth. On Monday and Tuesday Annie hadn’t quite made it back so Ally and I were joined by guest star Charlotte Lawrence for a bit of time and distance work then Annie joined us yesterday and we’ve had some good boat handling sessions with a great mix of breeze. Unfortunately for me today I took a little swim while doing a tacking exercise, the toe strap disappearing before me at just the wrong time! Tomorrow we’ll be out again then we’ll be starting preparations for our next World Cup event in Kiel, Germany starting at the end of next week.

I can hear the rain starting outside…lets hope that fades before tomorrows training!

Lucy x

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Back to sunny (ish) Weymouth

Wednesday 5th May, 2010

After last week’s drifting Ally, Annie and I are back to Weymouth this week for a few days training. This week Nick Cherry is with us as training partner and  we have Si Shaw coaching us, so we’re looking forward to making steps forward, focusing particularly on our down wind tactics and communication.

Yesterday we had good day in around 10knots and it is looking similar, perhaps a little lighter today. We’ll be down here until Friday when we will pack up the two Elliotts here ready to go in a container to be used for the Delta Lloyd Regatta in Medemblik, Holland in a couple of weeks.

Next for us is the European Championships next week in Austria.

Lucy

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