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Navy Women's Intersectional
A nailbiter. The young ladies sailed with great confidence and
intensity.
I was very impressed. At the same token, it is frustrating as a coach
to see enough opportunites on the race course slip by to cost us the
event. We should take one very important item away from the Navy
Women's; "no matter how fast you are up the beat, it's hard to make up
the difference on those who sail a shorter distance". We got caught on
the corect side of the course only to "overstand" and have boats to
leeward get there first. We didn't anticipate the new
layline once the shift we predicted came through. These women have been
coached countless times not to get to the laylines too early but
sometimes you get blinded by the little picture (the boats in your
immediate area) that you lose sight of the big picture (your position on
the race, the mark and the wind direction).
What it all means is we could have gone into the final two races of
this event with a much bigger lead than one point. On Kaya's last race
she
was over early. On Eliza's start she was in the second row. We did not
overcome either situation and fell back to second in a fleet of
nineteen.
It was a shame for Eliza Burnes and her crew Ginna Thomson who were
leading
B division and had to settle for finishing 3rd, 3 points back. Kaya
Haig and Christine Retlev finished 2nd in A division. The team had very
many good
starts throughout the event and were chalenging very hard, but got shut
out a bit on their last ones. Dartmouth won the event. Third place was
49pts behind us, as Dartmouth and BU overwhelmed the rest of the large
fleet.
Results at: http://www.collegesailing.org/neisa/00wnavy.txt
-Brad Churchill