August 4, 2012
Weymouth, UK

After a relaxing day off where we got to watch some 49er racing, we came back to racing today with our final two races of the round robin. We wanted to come out and win both of them going into the quarterfinals and that's what we did, taking our score line to 8-3 overall and ranking us 4th.

(Downwind Through The Other Flights Photo: Joanna Tunnicliffe 2012)

We had two great races against the Swedish and the British teams. Both races were quite close all around the track because of the shifty conditions, but both Molly and Debbie did a great job of finding the breeze and shifts and allowing us to stay ahead all around the course.

(Circling Pre-Start Photo: Joanna Tunnicliffe 2012)

Our 4th place finish in the round-robin puts us up against Team Finland in the quarterfinals which start on Tuesday. The points were close in the round with many of the places coming down to a tie-breaker. We were in a three way tie for second, but lost it, and behind us there was a three way tie for 5th place. However, moving into the quarterfinals are the teams from Australia, Russia, Spain, USA, Finland, France, Great Britain, The Netherlands.

All the teams get a two day break now before racing begins again. We are looking forward to watching some exciting medal races on our days' off which will see the first of the sailing medals awarded.

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Sail hard