September 28, 2011 Annapolis, MD After a slow start to the day, due to lack of wind, we began to head out to the race course around 10am for the start of racing at the 2011 Santa Maria Cup here in Annapolis, MD. It was a slow sail out to the race course, but the wind slowly filled in and was solid by the time racing got underway around 11am. The race committee did a great job of keeping up with the shifting breeze, its increases and decreases, and all the boat rotations to get in 8 flights (each flight consists of 4 races) by 6pm when they cal...
September 27, 2011 Annapolis, MD Great news for Team Maclaren!!! Anna was nominated for the 2011 Rolex ISAF World Sailor for the Year. The announcement was made earlier today when the final list of nominees was released. The winner will be selected from this list of 4 sailors on November 8th at the ISAF annual meeting in Puerto Rico. The nominees are selected based on their performance from September 1, 2010 through August 31, 2011. The public is encouraged to nominate athletes based on their performance and a selection committee selects the t...
September 18, 2011 Stanford, CA It's been a while since we've written, but Team Maclaren has been busy training hard in Chicago at the Chicago Match Race Center. We have had two sessions so far there and have one more coming up. We are currently on a four-day break, before we hit the water again on Tuesday. We also had some great news; when the new ISAF world women's match race rankings came out for September, they showed us at #1. Perfect Conditions For Training At Chicago Match Race Center Photo: (c) Team Maclaren 2011 Our trai...
August 31, 2011 Rochester, NY It was a great day for Team Maclaren today at the US Sailing's 2011 RIWKC. We entered the day five points out of the lead, and sailed to a 2, 1, 3 finish to bring us up to tied for first place with Sally Barkow and team. Coming Into The Offset Mark Photo: (c) Rolex/Daniel Foster 2011 The boats left the dock again this morning around 8:30 to head out to the race course for a 10am start. As we sailed out, the wind died, and looked terrible for a couple of hours. Finally around 11:15, it started to fill ...
August 30, 2011 Rochester, NY We completed 5 races today at the US Sailing's 2011 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championships. We finished with a score line of 1, 10, 2, 8, and 7 to leave us in 4th overall. Photo: (c) Rochester YC 2011 We headed out to the race course around 8:45am and started on time at 10am. The conditions this morning were 10-12kts and semi steady breeze relative to how the day ended. By the last race, the wind had swung 55 degrees to the right with both big left and right shifts and the wind dropped to 5-7kts. The r...
August 29, 2011 Rochester, NY Today was the first official day of US Sailing's 2011 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championships, but unfortunately there was no racing. Photo: (c) US Sailing's 2011 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championships We headed out for the race course around 10am to get in a couple hours of practice before the scheduled start at noon. However, as we left the harbor, the wind died and it took us an hour to sail to the course. And all day long the wind phased in and out but never brought forth m...
Settling In Before US Sailing's 2011 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championships
August 28, 2011, 5:00pm
August 28, 2011 Rochester, NY Team Maclaren arrived in Rochester NY at 1am this morning for the US Sailing's 2011 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship (RIWKC). Our Sailing Venue Photo: (c) Team Maclaren 2011 We got on a plane yesterday after racing at the 2011 Buddy Melges Challenge, flew to Atlanta and then up to Rochester. It seems a very-out-of-the-way route, but it was the only way we could get here for today. We woke this morning and headed to Rochester Yacht Club for registration and weigh in. We weighed in first to ma...
August 27, 2011 Sheboygan, WI We Won! Today we won the 2011 Buddy Melges Challenge after defeating Team Le Berre 3-0 in the finals. Photo: 2011 Buddy Melges Challenge Champions, Team Maclaren (c) Team Maclaren 2011 It was another beautiful day of racing here in Sheboygan with warm temperatures and a steady northerly wind around 8-13kts. We sailed slightly longer races today since there was only the finals and petit finals racing to be concluded. The longer courses meant that we would get in good races. And we did. &nb...
August 25, 2011 Sheboygan, WI Another long day of racing, and good results at the end for us. We won three of our four races this morning to advance to the quarterfinals as the third seed and are currently up 2-0 over Team Wang from China in the quarterfinals. Photo: (c) David Bronson, Buddy Melges Challenge 2011 The day started with a nice 10-14kt offshore north westerly breeze which provided flat water with puffy and shifty racing before it slowly shifted to the right and got a little unsteady before settling in from the north ...
August 24, 2011 Sheboygan, WI It was another good day on the water for Team Maclaren as we increased our record to 10-1 overall with 4 wins and one loss today at the 2011 Buddy Melges Challenge. Photo: (c) Dave Bronson, Sail Sheboygan 2011 We started the day similar to yesterday with sitting out four races before hitting the water. We had some good races, two of which were very close. We ended up winning one, and losing the other. Our first close race was against our USSTAG teammates Team Tulloch. The race started about ev...
