NYYC Women’s Match Racing Clinic and Regatta - Day Three
Today we had “a classic Newport day” as the locals called it. Clear skies and a nice southeasterly sea breeze all day starting around 12 knots and building to a peak around 18 to 20 and staying in the 12 to 18 range all afternoon.
We sailed the whole first round robin – 7 flights of four matches per flight – so all of the competitors sailed each other once. We had some ups and downs with only 2 wins and 5 losses, but we feel better than you might expect from the scorecard. We came into this week with the plan to treat both the clinic and the regatta as training and learning experiences and it has definitely been that. The learning curve is definitely still on the increase which is great! It’s fun to keep finding new trick and actually having the opportunity to put them to work on the race course.
Results from Round Robin One:
Barkow 7-0
Tunnicliffe 6-1
Tulloch 5-2
Meldegaard Pedersen 3-4
Capozzi 3-4
Lovell 2-0
SFWMRT 2-0
Klock-Crump 0-7
Tomorrow we will sail the second round robin and keep working with the great coaches.
Now it’s time for some rest!
We‘ll update by email throughout the regatta and hopefully post the updates on http://lizbaylis.com.
Cheers,
Liz, Carol, Jo Ann, and Kim (and Karina next week)
San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team