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Sail for Gold Regatta — Bringing Home the Bronze!

August 14th, 2010

We are thrilled to win a Bronze in Weymouth at Sail for Gold!

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Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta Day 5 — Up to 2nd with the medal race to go!

August 13th, 2010

Dear Friends,
Great news!  After our two races today, an 18 and a 1, we moved up to 2nd on the scoreboard!  With only the medal race to go tomorrow, we are 9 points out of first, so are excited to try to keep moving up.  The medal race is the last race of the regatta, [...]

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Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta Day 3 — In 6th Place after Six Races!

August 11th, 2010

Dear Friends,
We sailed two races today in a shift southwesterly breeze, and placed 12th and 18th.  Despite not feeling great about our results, we moved up to 6th place overall — the boats around us on the scoreboard had equally challenging days.  The good part about the day was that we had two great starts [...]

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Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta Day 1 — In 5th Place After Two Races

August 9th, 2010

Dear Friends,
Three weeks after our 11th place finish at the 2010 World Championships, we are back on the racecourse at the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in Weymouth, England, at the site of the 2012 Summer Olympics!  This is our first time on the water  in Weymouth, and we are excited to be getting our [...]

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World Championships Days 4 & 5: 4th, 19th, 20th and 14th put us in 10th overall

July 16th, 2010

Dear Friends,
Unless you have been reading our facebook posts, the last time you heard from us was Wednesday evening.  Since then we sailed one race yesterday, placing 4th, and three races today, placing 19th, 20th, and 14th.  Overall we are in 10th place, but the points in front of us are very close.  We are [...]

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World Championships Day 3: a 5th and 10th move us into 3rd overall!

July 14th, 2010

Dear Friends,
We sailed two races today in 10 to 20 knots, and placed 5th and 10th.  We are now in 3rd place overall, with four days of racing left.  We have two more qualifying races scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday), and then the fleet will be split into gold and silver.  We can even [...]

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World Championships Day 2: a 1, 1 puts us in FIRST overall!

July 13th, 2010

Today was one of those days that both of us will remember for a long time! We had two races today in light winds, five to eight knots with lots of current, and won both of the races!

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World Championships Day 2 Press Release

July 13th, 2010

2010 Delta Lloyd 470 World Championships
9-18 July 2010 – The Hague, The Netherlands
The Hague, 13 July 2010
Return to Qingdao
Jo Aleh : ‘it was China all over again”
After a first day lost initially to too little wind and then too much, it was with considerable relief that three races for the Men and two for the [...]

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Follow 470 Team USA’s Travels with our waypoints!

July 13th, 2010

Check out this cool map — we’ll add waypoints from the places that we go to on our road to the Olympics:
View 470 Team USA’s Travels in a larger map
The waypoints are built with MotionX GPS on the Iphone. Click here to check out the program. Pretty cool!

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2010 World Championships Day 1 — No Racing

July 12th, 2010

Dear Friends,
Today was a day of hurry-up-and-wait-for-wind, with an exclamation point of excitement at the end of the day where we had to race a squall into shore!  We were lucky to emerge from the day unscathed — our sails hardly luffed — while two teams bent or broke masts, and many teams ruined equipment.  [...]

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