Daily
Event Reports
Day 4 -
Friday,
October 15, 2004
Three races were held
on this the final day of the U.S. Women's Sailing Championship.
The racing remained tight all day, especially among the top four boats
who were separated by five points at the beginning of the day.
Vicki Sodaro (San Francisco Yacht Club)
was OCS in race 8 but then went onto win the final two races.
Joni Palmer (Deep Creek Yacht Club) the 2003 winner and Whitney Besse
(Vineyard Haven Yacht Club) whose grandmother had won this
championship in 1946 were in strong competition to be this year's
winner and wound up tied before the discards.
But with strong and consistent finishes
throughout the week, Rush Creek Yacht Club's Kathy Irwin and her crew,
Kerri Cunningham, Wendy Vann, and Nataleigh Vann
were awarded the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Trophy as the 2004 winners
of the U.S. Women's Sailing Championship. Palmer took home
second place and Besse, third.
See
complete standings.
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