The hard work paid off; Gosia and her rock star crew: Elizabeth Kratzig, Chafee Emory and Martha Parker took 16th place in the Rolex International Woman’s Keelboat Championship, hosted by Houston Yacht Club in La Porte Texas.
Last January, Gosia met Elizabeth in Miami and they went sailing out of the Shake a Leg facilities on a Sonar chartered from Magnus Liljedahl’s Team Paradise. It was a good productive boot camp, followed by another and than yet another.
In October Gosia drove Better Than… in her first regatta: VI Trofeo Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote, Canary Islands. We did not finish last and then the girls went all the way to Texas.
Thirty-eight J22s, some of the best woman crews in the world, Olympic medalists and hopefuls, match-racing veterans, all-in-all a very intimidating group of girls. They sailed an impressive eleven-race regatta with a fifth place for the first day.
Just watch them next year!