The SFWMRT at Knickerbocker Cup - Day Two
We finally got to go racing today! We went out at around 9:30 and towed about three miles out to Long Island Sound and discovered a light Northeasterly breeze to race in. We had a mixture of good starts and not so good starts and good races and not so good races, but didn’t string together a good winning combination of our first five matches. The highlight of our early matches might have been beating the highly ranked Russians, Arbuzov, at the start and getting a penalty on them, but they had better boatspeed than us and were able to pull out the win. So we were 0-5 in our first batches of races, then after a break until around 7 P.M. (while the other group sailed) we came out with a renewed vigor and beat the Argentinians off the start and led wire to wire which was a nice way to sail into the sunset today.
Tomorrow morning we are first up for five more matches and will be taking the lessons learned today into those matches and will hopefully have a better scorecard than today.
The regatta website: http://www.kyc.net/cup.asp
The local weather: http://tinyurl.com/6m5jgz
Our website: www.lizbaylis.com
Check back in tomorrow for another update!
Cheers,
Liz, Molly, Suzy, Emily, and Jenna
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team