Hello everyone!

We’ve just finished up three great days of training in Sheboygan and are headed to Weymouth tomorrow for the last Sailing World Cup event! This event will be a huge one, as we’ll sail in the venue for the 2012 Olympic Games for sailing—Weymouth, which is 2 hours south of London. It’s also a big event for me personally, as I’ll be trying to defend my current 2nd place on the World Cup ranking list. Sailing with me are two Olympians who sailed the 2008 Games together in Beijing in the Yngling: Sally Barkow in the middle and Debbie Capozzi on the bow. Together they were both Yngling AND Match Racing World Champions in 2005, and both are skippers in their own right, so I’m enjoying having three skippers on a boat! We’ve just had an excellent three days of training at the US Sailing Center in Sheboygan, in the new Elliott 6m fleet here, with US Sailing Team Alphagraphics teammates Anna Tunnicliffe, Molly Vandemoer and Alice Manard, who are also going to Weymouth for match racing, as well as Joanne Fisher and Kristen Lane’s teams, who are trying out the Elliotts for the first time and prepping for this weekend’s Grade 2 Buddy Melges Regatta. Sheboygan has been an excellent host for us for this and our last US Sailing Team Alphagraphics practice here, and along with coach Dave Perry and sailmaker Greg Fisher we’ve learned a lot more about the boats, boatspeed, and boathandling. Hopefully we’ll get to apply our new knowledge to the conditions in Weymouth, and will be well setup with two practice days there before racing starts on Monday. Follow along here: http://www.skandiasailforgoldregatta.co.uk

If you’d like to support us, please feel free to e-mail me with words of encouragement, leave a post on the website (www.getsailing.org), or consider donating to the campaign. I’d like to thank my current supporters, especially the St. Francis Yacht Club Foundation and the Richmond Yacht Club Foundation, as well as individual donors and my family for all of their encouragement. Also would like to thank my suppliers Kaenon Polarized, and GU, as well as the US Sailing Team Alphagraphics and it’s sponsors.

Cheers,
Genny