NYYC Women’s Match Racing Clinic and Regatta - Final
The final day of the regatta brought new weather conditions – a light northeasterly and a little rain. We finished our consolation semi-finals by beating Katy Lovell’s team 2-1 to advance to meet Deb Capozzi’s team in the sail-off for 5th. We won the first match despite getting a penalty by forcing Deb into a penalty at the windward mark then sailing on to finish ahead. The second and third matches didn’t go quite as well and we lost the series 1-2, thus finishing the regatta in 6th.
We came into this regatta with the mindset that the regatta was a continuation of the clinic and our primary goal was to continue to learn and take lessons away. We definitely accomplished that goal and felt that we are still learning and we look forward to using some of the new techniques that we have learned against some teams that weren’t taught the same moves nor the defense against those moves!
The chief umpire said even though this was a grade three event on paper he felt that the match racing from top to bottom in this regatta was some of the highest level he had seen on the women’s circuit, even higher than many grade one events and comparable to the world championship level.
From the NYYC Press Release:
Anna Tunnicliffe Wins NYYC Women’s Match Racing Regatta
The final day of the New York Yacht Club Women’s Match Racing Clinic & Regatta brought lighter and shiftier northeasterly winds and a variety of current conditions that challenged the sailors in the semi-finals and finals. Anna Tunnicliffe and Sally Barkow started the morning by closing out their semi-final series with their third straight wins over Lotte Pedersen and Genny Tulloch, respectively, to move into a much-awaited finals match-up. Barkow started strongly in the best-of-five finals with two convincing wins, controlling the side of the course with less current in both races. Tunnicliffe rallied back with a decisive win in the third race. In the fourth race, Barkow pushed Tunnicliffe over the line early and opened up a commanding lead. However, on the first run, she ran out of breeze, and Tunnicliffe brought up a new breeze line to close the gap and just get an inside overlap at the leeward mark and stole a comeback win. In the final race, the two were side by side around the first lap before Barkow was penalized for jibing too close at the end of the run. She was able to take her penalty and round right behind Tunnicliffe but wasn’t able to pass, and Tunnicliffe went on to win the finals by a 3-2 score.
Final Results:
1 - Anna Tunnicliffe (Molly Carapiet, Molly Vandemoer, Liz Bower)
2 - Sally Barkow
3 - Lotte Meldegaard Pedersen
4 - Genny Tulloch
5 - Debbie Capozzi
6 - Liz Baylis
7 - Katy Lovell
8 - Marie Klok Crump
More from Annapolis in a couple of days!
Cheers,
Liz, Carol, Jo Ann, and Kim
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team