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OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Silver at Rolex Miami OCR
Posted on 4:32pm Sunday 31st 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 our finals. In this regatta however we unfortunately only managed 18 straight wins and not the magic 19 we needed to win the gold!
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OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Finals here we come
Posted on 10:07pm Friday 29th January 2010
And the winning continued today, still undefeated we had some great racing today finishing our quarter finals 3-0 against Meldgaard (DEN) and then beating World #1 Leroy (FRA) 3-0 in the semi finals! We're really pleased with how we're sailing, and with how we are still chipping away at improving our tactics, speed and boat handling. The forecast is for us to have a bit more wind tomorrow from our 10 knot average today and after a very close semi final that went to 5 matches, Tunnicliffe's team (USA) came out as our opponents for tomorrow.
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OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: 2-0 up in the quarters
Posted on 1:06am Friday 29th January 2010
Day 4 of the Rolex Miami OCR has been another great day for Annie, Ally and I. Our first two races of the day were against Barkow (USA) and Leroy (FRA) to finish off the gold fleet round robin.
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OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Winning streak continues!
Posted on 10:07pm Wednesday 27th January 2010
Annie, Ally and my winning streak continued today as we started our Gold fleet round robin and won all three races beating Anna Tunicliffe (USA), Sam Osbourne (NZL) and Nicky Souter's (AUS) teams.
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OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Strong day one!
Posted on 12:53am Tuesday 26th January 2010
A strong start for us on day one with 4 wins out of 4! After a really good race against Mandy Mulder's team (NED) where we gave them a penalty on the first beat, the rumours of a big storm spread and we were brought in off the water for an hour and a half before finally getting out again around 3pm for 3 more races.
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OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: One day until racing
Posted on 7:10pm Sunday 24th January 2010
We're just in from our final practice session before the start of the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta tomorrow.
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OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Perfect conditions...but we can't go sailing!
Posted on 10:25pm Friday 22nd January 2010
We have just had two beautiful days in Miami however unfortunately it's been when we're not sailing!
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OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta
Posted on 12:34am Wednesday 20th January 2010
We’ve now been in Miami preparing for the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta a few days and have had some great practice sessions. Having spent the last few months since Sail for Gold training in our new Elliott 6m boats we’re looking forward to competing again and finally testing how our training has been going! The regatta will be the first for us in the 2010 racing calendar and the start of this year’s ISAF World Cup Series.
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Happy New Year!
Posted on 3:53pm Sunday 3rd January 2010
Annie, Ally and I would just like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a very happy and successful 2010 and to thank all our supporters and sponsors for their continued support.
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Cold, wet and windy training!
Posted on 12:45pm Sunday 6th December 2009
Despite the cold, rain and wind since returning from Nice we have been back to work, down at Weymouth training in the Elliotts...well we've tried! Our first week back the gales did halt our training but late week we had some really productive training against some of the other girls and some guys we brought in to beat us up a bit!
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