Silver Medal at Rolex Miami OCR

Saturday 30th January, 2010

7–10 knots greeted us today and plenty of chop as more and more spectator boats joined our course which led to some fantastic racing against Anna Tunnicliffe’s American team in the finals of the Women’s Match Racing at the Rolex Miami OCR. In this regatta however we unfortunately only managed 18 straight wins and not the magic 19 we needed to win the gold undefeated!

After the first two races we were 2–0 up and feeling good, but the conditions were very tricky with us rarely being more than two boat lengths apart. In the third race however after a great first beat we once again led round the first windward mark, but were given a (slightly debatable) penalty on our rounding. From there Tunnicliffe sailed well to stay ahead and get a point on the board. The next two races continued to be close with us winning the starts but struggling to gain any distance up or down wind. With Tunnicliffe winning the 4th race it was 2–2 and all down to the final race which was extremely close literally down to the final 20 meters to the finish line where they eventually beat us by half a boat length.

We are of course really gutted and disappointed not to have won the gold, however Annie, Ally and I have had a really fantastic week and have shown the world that we’re the team to beat. Anna and her team sailed the boat really well today and I’m told the racing between us was great to watch!

Thanks for all your support and we’ll keep you posted on our next move!

Lucy x

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