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We Won; We Are 2010 Snipe Women's World Champions - by Anna Tunnicliffe
We Won; We Are 2010 Snipe Women's World Champions - by Anna Tunnicliffe
Posted Nov 14, 2011 by Imagine Sail
We started with the day with 10kts that quickly died to borderline hiking conditions. The first race got under way on time. We had a good start and rounded the top mark in about 6th. We sailed well and managed to draw a penalty on Kathleen Tocke, the overnight leader. This meant she had to do penalty turns and consequently, dropped back in the race. We pulled up to finish 2nd with our closest competiton behind us.
Entering the second race, we had a 2 point lead on Kathleen, and 6 point lead on Trixy, from Argentina. We had a good start, but at the wrong end of the line and got in a bit of trouble rounding the top mark in about 10th with all of our competition in front of us; one in 1st and one in 3rd. We sailed hard and rallied back to 4th, with the Trixy getting 2nd in the race and Kathleen in 5th.
Going into the last race, we were locked into the top three with a 2 point lead on Trixy and a 3 point lead on Kathleen. We had a good chat with our coach, Ernesto Rodriguez, about what to do in the next race. We got our tactics sorted out, and then focused on getting top three at the top mark. We achieved our goal, with both Kathleen and Trixy behind us. We sailed focusing on keeping them behind us. By the second leeward mark, the three of us were in 4th, 5th, 6th in the race. We focused on them for most of the beat as we slowly pulled in the top three and made our move right at the finish to pass everyone and win the race and the regatta.
We are so excited to win our first World championship. It was a hard fought battle, but we stuck with it and we achieved our goals.
Molly and I owe a huge thanks to Ernesto our coach. He was a huge asset in our win, and couldn't have done it without him. We would also like to thank again, Raul Rios for letting us use his boat and Tito and Renee Vargas for housing us and letting us use their coach boat. We would like to thank SPYC for their efforts in difficult conditions in pulling off good races.
We would like to thank Carmeuse and Trinity Yachts for their continued support of our campaign for the 2012 Olympics in London. We would also like to thank US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) and its sponsors for their support.