Sail Mebourne Champions!
January 21st, 2008 by Isabelle
Dear Friends,
We did it! We won the Sail Melbourne Asia Pacific Regatta handily, coming out on top of the 48 boat women’s 470 fleet, 16 points ahead of 2nd place! We finished XX in the medal race, in front of our Japanese competitors in XX. This is our first international regatta win as a team, and we are looking forward to many more!
For complete results please visit the regatta site:
http://www.yachting.org.au/site/yachting/event/6997/overall_3_1.html
Here we are on top of the podium, next to the 3rd place Italian team:
And again below, still smiling wide with coach Skip Whyte:
For more photos from down under, please visit our picasa photo gallery:
http://picasaweb.google.com/isabelle.kinsolving/470TeamUSADownUnderSailMelbourne
We are feeling great going into the World Championships. We were successful in a variety of conditions, both windy and light. We have four days before racing starts again on Thursday, January 24th. We will measure our boat on Tuesday, January 22nd. The long-range forecast for Melbourne is calling for windy conditions for the beginning of the regatta — just what we like best!
The regatta website for the Worlds is: http://www.470.org/worlds08/
Thank you again to the Stonington Harbor Yacht Club Champions Fund and to all of you who make our effort possible. Special thanks to our product sponsors, Kaenon, Harken and Samson Ropes.
Best,
Erin and Isabelle
470 Team USA
www.470TeamUSA.com