Anna Tunnicliffe at Delta Lloyd regatta - Stuff happens

10:48 PM Thu 28 May 2009 GMT

Latest email from Anna Tunnicliffe, competing at the Delta Lloyd regatta in Holland.

I had another tough day today. I'm currently lying 13th overall, but plan on moving up in the standings over the next couple of days, in order to make the medal race on Saturday evening.

We had three races today in tricky conditions. It was very puffy with small oscillations. It was a day of patience and I had very few of those moments, unfortunately. The first race was a black flagged start. The race committee was focused on catching every offender and got 25 of us, which left only 33 boats racing the actual race. It was not the best way to start the day, as I was now wet and cold, sitting around for an hour waiting for our next race. We did get to watch the race, however, and could pick up on what was going on with the wind.

That said, I didn't do a very good job of implementing what I had learned, in the next race. I was doing ok in the race, maybe mid teens until the second beat when I sailed backwards through the fleet to round the windward mark in about 23rd. I started to pass some boats downwind, but was being too aggressive and the jury gave me a yellow flag penalty which meant that I had to do my two-turns and thus lost all of my gains plus some more. I went on to finish the race in 29th. Unfortunately I have to count the 29th in my scores because I had the BFD in the first race.

The last race, however, I managed to pull it together a little bit better and finished in 6th. It was a good end to a terrible day, but I think I've got my head sorted out now and am ready for the rest of the races. It will take a concerted and focused effort to catch up, but in the conditions we have been having, it is possible. The overall scores are very high, so if I put together a great second half, I'm still in the hunt for doing well. Despite having a BFD in the first race, Sari Mutala from Finland sailed a great last two races of the day and holds on to the overall lead.

You can check the results www.deltalloydregatta.org/2009/tablecloth/results/results.asp?show=lasr

I would like to thank my sponsor Carmeuse for their continued support of my campaign for the 2012 Olympics in London.

Sail Hard,

Anna

www.annatunnicliffe.com

by Anna Tunnicliffe

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