SFWMRT at Lysekil Women’s Match - Day Two
Today was a cloudy windy day in Lysekil. And you might say it was a cloudy day for the SFWMRT, as well. We wanted to be bringing you better news, but…
After a one race break in the morning for the other half of the draw to finish up their leftover match from yesterday, we went on the water for six matches with a short lunch break in the middle. We sailed with the big genoas in the morning then switched to the smaller jibs in the afternoon when the winds got quite fresh. Our first match was a close race with Silja Lehtinen (FIN) which ended with a photo finish that went Silja’s way. Our second match was a win for us wire to wire over Silke Hahlbrock (GER – ranked 4th in the world). Then we had a tough match with Malin Millbourn (SWE) that was another photo finish (again leaving us unlucky) with a couple of fouls and some contact at a flying finish that also resulted in her bow person going for a swim. (The fans on shore might have enjoyed that one a bit more than us.) Then after the break which included a demonstration from the Swedish Guard rescue team involving helicopters and swimmers, we sailed thre more matches. The afternoon results were about as rough as the morning – one win over Delphine Casas (FRA) sandwiched between losses to Marie Bjorling (SWE) and Linda Rahm (SWE).
So, we, along with two others, are done with our matches in the round robin and it doesn’t look good for us moving on to the quarterfinals. We ended with only 4 wins out of 11 matches, not our best performance. As happens when all of the teams at an event are quite good, there are quite a number of matches that could have gone either way. We need to step up our game a little to get some of those close matches to go our way. Lessons learned that now need to be applied!
We will now wait to see how the round robin plays out to see what matches remain for us. For those teams that do not make the quarterfinals, there will be “sail-offs” for the remaining places – seventh and eighth in the round robin will sail off for seventh and so forth down through twelfth. So we have at least one more match to sail. A bit of a let down, but another match nonetheless.
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, sorry we didn’t make better use of them!
Cheers,
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team
(Liz, Aimee, Lee, Karina, Chafee, Suzy and baby, Nicole)