SFWMRT at Busan Women’s World Match Race - Day Three
We went out yesterday knowing we had our work cut out for us as Barkow, Leroy, Spithill and Ward were all sailing well and only four of us would make it into the semi-finals. After a long delay waiting for wind, our first match was against Ward. We were overlapped going around the leeward mark and for the first time in the regatta our crew work let us down and we had an awful rounding and never had a chance to recover. We then had a LONG wait on the beach while others raced, then went out on the water for our last two matches. Our penultimate match was against the Japanese and we lead all the way around and they had a very problematic leeward mark rounding and could not get their spinnaker down, so we did not need to fly a spinnaker on the second run to win by well over a leg. This set up our match with Claire Leroy. We started even but to leeward and got out to the port layline and followed her in to the mark. We gained on both downwind legs, but never enough to really attack her, so we lost that one.
The results after the complete Round Robin:
Barkow 9-1
Leroy 9-1
Ward 8-2
Spithill 8-2
Baylis 6-4
Sato 3.5-6 (.5 off for damage)
Boyd 3-7
Tylinska 3-7
Li xue 2-8
Naik 2-8
Lim 1-9
Today (Saturday here, Friday at home) the top four will sail the semi-finals and we will sail against Sato for 5th.
The internet connection here is a bit sketchy and we’ve been having a little trouble with the mailing list, so if you aren’t getting the updates, please check on our web site: http://www.lizbaylis.com.
We’ll try to keep you updated the best we can over the next few days, but if you are looking for information the event web site is http://www.bsaf.or.kr/event_eng/event_01.htm seems to be updated regularly.
Last night we attended a performance of “Jump”, a world renowned “Korean Martial Arts Comedy”. It was great. If you want to read about it: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/111694.html
Cheers,
Liz, Molly, Shala, Karen, and Sam
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team