SFWMRT at Busan Women’s World Match Race
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team is gathering in Busan, Korea, for our penultimate event of the 2008 season – The Busan Women’s World Match Race. This event will be a truly international event with nine countries represented including for the first time ever – 4 Asian countries – Korea, China, Japan, and India. There will also be four teams ranked in the top ten in the World:
Claire Leroy (FRA) - ISAF #1
Liz Baylis (USA) - ISAF #4
Katie Spithill (AUS) - ISAF #5
Sally Barkow (USA) - ISAF #10
Susanne Ward (DEN) - ISAF #44
Samantha Boyd (AUS) - ISAF #45
Katarzyna Tylinska (POL) - unranked
Li Xue (CHN) - unranked
Maiko Sato (JPN) - unranked
Pallavi Naik (IND) - unranked
Lim Hwa eun (KOR) - unranked
The SFWMRT for this event is: Liz (driving), Molly Carapiet (tactics/main trim), Karen Loutzenheiser (trim), Samantha Osborne (trim), and Shala Lawrence (bow). We will be sailing brand new boats – K 30s (or Bakewell White 9 meters) which are 30 footers with asymmetrical kites.
When we mentioned earlier that the boats are new, we really mean brand new – they have not been launched yet – we attended the christening ceremony Friday at Busan City Hall and they are frantically getting them put together. Hopefully they will be ready for practice tomorrow!
Shala, Molly and Liz went for a big 4 hour hike in the mountains above Busan near a fortress with a number of beautiful temples. Sam and Karen arrive later tonight.
We’ll try to keep you updated the best we can over the next few days, but I you are looking for information the event web site is http://www.bsaf.or.kr/event_eng/event_01.htm and hopefully it will be updated regularly.
Cheers,
Liz, Molly, Shala, Karen, and Sam
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team