SFWMRT at Lysekil Women’s Match - Day One
We had brilliant weather for sailing today! The sun was out and we had good breeze.
Since there are twelve teams and only six boats, the format is a little different form a lot of our regattas. At any given time only half of the competitors are out on the water and the other half are on shore, mostly watching from the shore or the grandstands (yes, they have grandstands here to watch sailing!). Our morning started with five straight flights of racing for us. We won our first match against Camilla Ulrikkeholm (DEN), then lost a match to Jenny Axhede (SWE), then one our match with Katie Spithill (AUS), then lost a very close see-saw match with Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen (DEN – defending champion of this event), then ended the morning losing to Nina Braestrup (DEN). So, we ended our day of sailing with 2 wins and 3 losses – not exactly what we wanted, but considering it was our first time in these boats as a time (and the first time ever in these bats for three of us), we feel our learning curve is good and steep and we be able to take our experience from today and move our way up the leaderboard tomorrow.
The other half of the teams went out in the afternoon and were only able to complete four flights as the breeze picked up from the 10-14 knots we had in the morning to a fresh 15-20+ by the end of flight 9. Tomorrow morning this group will finish up with one more flight then we will be back out on the water for our remaining six matches of the round robin.
We haven’t committed the results to memory, but you can find them on the web at the links below.
You should be able to follow the action at http://www.lysekilwomensmatch.se/
- the results are posted at http://www.lysekilwomensmatch.se/page/183/resultat.htm
- a link to the pairing list (who sails against whom in which match) can be found at the bottom of the results page
and the weather can be found at http://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/Lysekil/forecasts/latest which continues to look pretty good for the week.
Thanks for the good thoughts you’ve been sending our way! We’ll try to make better use of them tomorrow and bring home some more wins!
More news tomorrow!
Cheers,
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team
(Liz, Aimee, Lee, Karina, Chafee, Suzy and baby, Nicole)