3rd in Medal Race, 7th at Kieler Woche

June 24th, 2009 in Regattas.

Kiel finished up today in fine form with 8-12 knots of northerly breeze under clear blue sunny skies. We had a medal race scheduled for 12:20 this afternoon only 150 yards off the Kiel harbor entrance. The conditions were choppy from spectator traffic and quite shifty as the course was in the lee of the local town of Strande.

Brad and I could conceivably move from our 9th position at the beginning of the day to as high as 5th if all went just according to the ideal scoreline. We had to depend on too many scenarios to play out to worry about that so our goal was to break out and win the race. We won the startabout two thirds of the way down toward the pin. When the fleet on our hip eventually tacked we consolidated and lifted off the group in a nice lefty while pinching off the boats still to the left of us. Mark Mendelblatt and Mark Strube, the other American team in the medal race crossed behind us to the left in the last 300 yards of the leg and were able to snag a nice lift into the top. We rounded close behind in second. In an attempt to pass those guys, we gybed away and split from the group, but that turned out to be a loss of about three boats and we spent the rest of the race clawing back to a 3rd in the race. We were happy to find out that the 3rd sent us two spots up the scoreboard to take 7th in the regatta.

What a funny series we’ve had here: Only three days of racing two of which were one-race-days. Brad and I are happy with the finish after so many teens to start the regatta. I’m looking forward to securing a berth to the worlds in Sweden next month and hopefully putting up a decent score there.

We have one more World Cup event on the schedule: Sail for Gold in September in Weymouth, and with three top sevens in three world cup events, we might have a good shot to be top five at the end of the season.

There should be GPS tracks of our medal race online at the KielerWoche website. I’ll try and get a link up when I get back to the States.

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