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Day one of the U.S.
Women's Match Racing Championship dawned beautiful and unfortunately
windless. The nine teams got into the Governors Cup 21s, and after a 55
minute tow, they were ready for racing - but there was still no wind.
After a two hour
postponement, the breeze began to fill, and the race committee was able to
get the racing started in about 5 knots of breeze. Liz Baylis' the San
Francisco Women's Match Race Team and Deb Capozzi's team ran off the first
two flights with victories.
During the third flight,
the breeze began building, but the fog began rolling in. The first two
matches were able to finish before the visibility went out completely, and
the race committee was forced to abandon the other two matches that were
still on the course. Baylis and Lovell won those two matches.
After milling about the
main committee boat as the fog got thicker and thicker (while the breeze
built to a nice level, unfortunately), the race committee called racing for
the day and towed the teams home.
After two and a half
flights, the teams stand as follows:
Baylis 3-0
Capozzi 2-0
Hayes 2-1
Treadwell 1-0
Bienvenue 1-1
Lovell 1-2
Scheibner 0-2
Hjorth 0-1
Arms 0-3
Tomorrow the race
committee will work to finish the first round robin and get into the second
as far as possible. The weather forecast looks more favorable!
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