Dear Friends, Well, we were hoping to write with better news… We lost the Olympic Trials on a tie-breaker. The other American team, Amanda Clark and Sarah Lihan, finished 12th, and we placed 15th. We were three points ahead after Sail for Gold in June, but the tie-breaker goes to the top team here at [...]

Dear Friends, A 28, 28 on Monday, December 12th, Day 1 of the 470 Worlds puts us deep — in 27th overall. We had a tough day: we were not the fastest boat on the racecourse, and we had lots of little things go wrong. It’s a long regatta with lots of racing left, and [...]

Dear Friends, Exciting news! As of November 23rd, we are ranked first in the world in the ISAF rankings! You can click HERE for the ISAF news release, as well as the complete ranking. Despite our silence since Sail Melbourne, we have been working hard. We have been in Fremantle, Australia since November 17th, preparing [...]

As of November 23rd, we achieved the #1 ranking in the world in the Women’s 470! Click HERE for the ISAF website!

Dear Friends, A 2nd in the medal race today, Saturday, moved us up to 4th overall at Sail Melbourne! Today’s race was sailed in 7-9 knots, essentially the same velocity as Race 10 yesterday. The flag allowing unlimited kinetics was flying, which always makes for more exciting racing. We had a great start at the [...]

Dear Friends, It has been a long two days since you last heard from us on Wednesday: we had three long, wacky races on Thursday, where we placed 7th, 7th, and 5th in the women’s fleet. Today, Friday, we placed 6th in Race 9, and then finally had a better Race 10, placing 3rd in [...]

Dear Friends, A 4th place in the only race today, Race 5, slips us back to fifth, but tied for third on points. We started a second race today, but the race committee cancelled it as winds were gusting close to 30 knots. Points are very close in the women’s fleet as we have all [...]

Dear Friends, A 2, 6 in the two light air races today moves us up to 3rd overall in the women’s fleet. For complete scores, please visit the regatta WEBSITE. For details from today’s racing, please read on! We were postponed on land briefly while we waited for the wind to fill in. Both races [...]

Dear Friends, Hello from the other side of the world! We are currently in Melbourne, Australia, 16 hours ahead of EST. This time change makes for some weird time-warps! When you wake up on Monday morning and read this e-mail, we will likely already be fast asleep (8 am EST is midnight for us in [...]

Click HERE for a great article about us as a team by Shauna McGee Kinney on Sail-World.com.