SFWMRT at Knickerbocker Cup - Final
The Knickerbocker Cup ended earlier for our team than we would have liked on Saturday. We had an up and down day on Saturday with our remaining 5 matches. We had good moments and bad moments – some decent starts and some not as good ones, some moments of brilliance around the course, but the net outcome was five more losses. To say the least, this is not exactly how we wanted this event to go! We took away a few hard learned lessons that we will use to step up our game for our future events.
All of the teams at this event and especially the four teams that moved onto Sunday’s semi-finals are very strong and are all names you’ll be seeing on the open match racing circuit in the years to come. We look forward to the opportunity to test ourselves with them again with hopefully better results for us.
We’d like to thank our hosts, Jeanne Rosenthal (KYC Rear Commodore) and Perry Lengton, for putting us up in their home in Port Washington during the event. They made us feel very welcome.
The next event on our schedule is defending our title at the U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship in Rochester, NY September 6-10. The SFWMRT crew will be Liz Baylis, Cory Sertl, Carol Cronin, and Suzy Leech. Other SFWMRT team members will also be competing: Molly Carapiet will be skippering with Emily Hill crewing. And Alice Manard will be sailing with Katy Lovell. The event should be very competitive with, among other, Olympians Anna Tunnicliffe and Deb Capozzi also skippering.
Look for updates before that event begins in a few weeks.
In the meantime, please visit our website: www.lizbaylis.com to see what else we’re up to.
Thanks again for your continued support of our team!
Cheers,
Liz, Molly, Suzy, Emily, and Jenna
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team