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Day one of the Rolex Miami OCR [Monday January 24th]

Paul Goodison, Laser Photo credit Rolex/ Dan Forster

After Christmas and New Year off, followed by some Melges 32 sailing, I’ve been looking forward to checking in with the rest of the fleet to see where I am after not much Laser sailing so far this year. Also, to see how much work is needed in the coming months…

It was a great day on the water for day one of the Miami OCR, the second leg of the 2010-11 ISAF Sailing World Cup series. We had a good forecast for the days racing; the wind came in from the east and peaked at just over 16 knots. We sailed two races just off Biscayne Bay in a turbulent breeze. In the first race I managed to round in the top group and get ahead on the second beat to take the gun.

In the second race it was harder work trying to catch the leader that had such a big lead. I caught back up but was just pipped at the post to take second.

All in all, it was a great start to the Regatta. It looks like a similar forecast for tomorrow so fingers crossed for more of the same racing.

Team Volvo for life results after Day one
Paul Goodison, laser 2nd 
Sarah Ayton and Saskia, 470 6th
Helena Lucas, 2.4 mR, 11th
Ben Ainslie, Finn, 3rd
Nick Dempsey, RS:X Mens, 1st

All the results can be found  http://rmocr.ussailing.org/2011/Results.htm

Melges 32 Sailing

After a good but tricky week of sailing in generally shifty lighter winds, Key West draws to an end. Team Red had a bit of an up and down week never really getting in to top gear, we struggled a little to pop out in front and had to fight for every place. With a mixture of incidents from hooking a lobster pot to starting over in two races and having to return, the guys fought admirably to get back in to each race. We finished the regatta in 5th Overall and look to build on this in the coming months. The top three boats Goombay, Warpath and Leenabarca were in a league of their own last week, fast and sailing well so we need to work on closing the gap.

Results can be found http://sailingupdates.com/view/39/

Paul

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