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 [...]

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 [...]

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!

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 [...]

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!

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.  [...]

Dear Friends,
Racing starts tomorrow, Monday, July 12th at the 2010 470 World Championships in the Hague, Netherlands.  See below for a photo of us at the opening ceremonies.  We have gotten four great days of training at the regatta site, and are ready for action!  Tonight we are watching the Soccer World Cup with bated [...]

This past weekend, Friday, June 11th through Sunday, June 13th, we, in partnership with the Stonington Harbor Yacht Club Sailing Foundation, organized and hosted the 2010 470 National Championship. It was truly a national representation of the US 470 fleet! Twelve teams competed from all around the country: three teams came from St. [...]

Sorry for not writing to you yesterday, Wednesday. We had a very long day on the water with three races, and we did not have time (or energy) to send the usual update. In yesterday’s three races we placed 33, 21 and 12th. At the end of the day we had slipped [...]

After all the anticipation, we did not have any races today. It was windy this morning…

And then only got windier and wavier…

We were postponed on shore until about 3:30 pm, at which point they cancelled us for the day. While the wind was manageable, the waves were so large that a beach launch [...]