Gone match racing

Lucy Macgregor has ditched the Yngling for a match racing campaign

With Ladies Match Racing adopted as the new discipline in the 2012 Olympics so Lucy Macgregor has stepped out and announced herself on the world stage. This time Team Macgregor (Lucy, sister Nicky, Georgie Blaver-Mann and Ally Martin) beat World #3 Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen 3-2 in Antibes to win the ISAF Nations Cup Northern Europe Regional Final.

While Team GBR celebrate the successes of Qingdao, Macgregor stepped away from the Yngling, moved back to helming putting her talents to good use in the match racing arena. The two time National Champion and current European Champion has set her sights on 2012 and has quickly put together a campaign that has seen her win and take 2nd in Grade 1 events in Germany and Portugal respectively, and now qualify GBR for the Nations Cup Grand Final in Brazil, March 2009.

Performances like this have seen Lucy and her team leap to 13th and top British helm in the recently updated World Match Racing Rankings despite only 5 from a potential 8 race results counting, this is hoped to be improved even further when the Rankings are next updated at the end of this month. What’s more impressive is the range of boats that they have mastered to achieve these results from the small and lightweight First 7.5 to the purpose designed, much larger, Swedish Match 40.

As well as the Match Racing Team Macgregor has also illustrated their versatility in fleet racing where they were top female boat at the J24 World Championships in Sardinia.

The team’s next match racing event will be the Rolex Osprey Cup in St Petersburg, Florida 21-25 October.