Our boat, “The Corner Office,” ships out to Europe today, Monday, February 7th, and we spent the weekend in Miami getting it ready to go.

Dear Friends,
Despite our silence over the past month, we have been incredibly busy racing and training. The highlight of this month was US Sailing’s Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, that finished this past Saturday, January 30th. There, we placed 7th overall in a very talented fleet. Of the top women’s 470 international [...]

Dear Friends,

We wanted to wish you happy holidays as the new year begins!

The last e-mail from us was at the World Championships in September in Copenhagen, Denmark. We ended that regatta with a strong 10th place, the top American team by far.

As the 2012 Olympic approach, only 20 months away, we have been increasing [...]

Dear Friends,
Well, we did it! We placed 1st and 9th in the two races today, and moved into 10th! We can only move up in the medal race tomorrow: we are only nine points out of 8th place (8th and 9th are currently tied), 10 points out of 7th, and fifteen points out [...]

Dear Friends,
This is just a short update as it is getting late.  We had a much better day on the water, finishing 6th and 9th, and moving up to 12th on the scoreboard.  It feels good to be moving up in the standings!
The wind today was a southerly, with “normal” shifts — a refreshing change [...]

Dear Friends,
Well, today was not our best day.  We sailed two races in tricky, shifty conditions.  We finished 18th and 22nd out of 29 boats in the gold fleet, and dropped to 17th overall (tied for 16th).  While we made good decisions for the majority of the races, two large mistakes (gybing off a header [...]

Dear Friends,
We had one light air race today, the last day of qualifying. We finished 11th in the race today, and are still in 12th overall. The points are starting to get spread out, but things can move dramatically once racing starts in gold fleet. We now have 39 points, and are 22 [...]

Dear Friends,
Today’s update is going to be brief as we had a long day on the water. We are currently in 12th place, with five races sailed, and eight left to go. We have 28 points, and are only 14 points out of 2nd place. We have mathematically secured qualifying for the [...]

Dear Friends,
We write from Rungsted, Denmark, after Day 1 of the 2009 470 World Championships. We finished 5th place in both races today, and are in 6th place (tied for 5th) overall out of 57 boats. There are 11 races left: 4 more qualifying races, 6 finals races, and 1 medal race.
For complete [...]

Dear Friends,
As it stands right now, we are in 4th place overall with 16 points, only 6 points out of 1st place, with three races sailed, and six races and a medal race left. Yesterday, Thursday, was a really long day on the water: we launched at 12:45 p.m., and didn’t get back to [...]