Anna Tunnicliffe Wins NYYC Women’s Match Racing Regatta

The final day of the New York Yacht Club Women’s Match Racing Clinic & Regatta brought lighter and shiftier northeasterly winds and a variety of current conditions that challenged the sailors in the semi-finals and finals. Anna Tunnicliffe and Sally Barkow started the morning by closing out their semi-final series with their third straight wins over Lotte Pedersen and Genny Tulloch, respectively, to move into a much-awaited finals match-up. Barkow started strongly in the best-of-five finals with two convincing wins, controlling the side of the course with less current in both races. Tunnicliffe rallied back with a decisive win in the third race. In the fourth race, Barkow pushed Tunnicliffe over the line early and opened up a commanding lead. However, on the first run, she ran out of breeze, and Tunnicliffe brought up a new breeze line to close the gap and just get an inside overlap at the leeward mark and stole a comeback win. In the final race, the two were side by side around the first lap before Barkow was penalized for jibing too close at the end of the run. She was able to take her penalty and round right behind Tunnicliffe but wasn’t able to pass, and Tunnicliffe went on to win the finals by a 3-2 score.

Final Results:
1 - Anna Tunnicliffe (Molly Carapiet, Molly Vandemoer, Liz Bower)
2 - Sally Barkow
3 - Lotte Meldegaard Pedersen
4 - Genny Tulloch
5 - Debbie Capozzi
6 - Liz Baylis
7 - Katy Lovell
8 - Marie Klok Crump