From 3 To 30kts In An Hour At Skandia SFG, Weymouth UK

August 10, 2010
Weymouth, UK

Tonight's update will be short since we got off the water at 8:30pm and have to be leaving the dock tomorrow morning at 8:30am. However, we do have great news; we completed three of the four scheduled races and won them all to take our round robin record to 6-0, and enough to advance us through to the gold fleet in the next stage. Our final race tomorrow is against GBR's Lucy MacGregor and team who are also 6-0 at this point in the round.

It Was Wet Today

Photo: (c) Sail For Gold Facebook Album, August 2010

Today was a lot of waiting for the breeze and the wind to sort itself out. Group B were the first ones out. With one race left to go, the wind picked up to 30kts and a couple of things broke on the boats, so the fleet was sent in for a while. A couple of hours later, the matches that hadn't been completed were sent out, with the rest of us given permission to leave the harbour twenty minutes later. By 5pm, we were finally on our way out to the course to start our racing. The conditions were great for racing and we had some tight races. Our closest race was against France's Anne-Claire Le Berre. We made an error on the start line and started a little early, which meant we had to return to the line. This gave Le Berre a couple of lengths lead at the start. By the leeward mark, we had caught up to them and could play on the next beat. At the top mark, we managed to draw a red flag penalty, which meant they had to spin it immediately, giving us the lead and the race.

And Windy.

Photo: (c) Sail For Gold Facebook Album, August 2010

We have one race tomorrow morning, then a break for a couple of hours before we head back out to start gold fleet racing. We have live tracking on our boats all regatta long, to which you can link through the regatta website. You can also check the results there.

We would like to thank Carmeuse and Trinity Yachts for their continued support of our campaign for the 2012 Olympics in London. We would also like to thank US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) and its sponsors for their support.

Sail Hard,

Anna
Team Tunnicliffe