Every move countsDutch Match Racing Team on their way to the World Championships 2015

competition to the fullest

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One team of true ‘sailing chicks’, digging the most intense, exciting and specta-culair way of sailing: match racing

Two boats battling it out on a an easy looking, straight forward race course. But there are only 15 minutes to play for, it’s all are nothing as there is no second place in this game...

Rozan Gilles Fettje OsingaMirthe Kramer Rikst Dijkstra

The team

Goals 2015Top 10 ISAF World Ranking WomenTop 100 ISAF World Ranking Open Top 8 (quarter finals) ISAF Womens Match Racing Worlds

Goals 2016Compete in the Dutch Match cup (Alpari World Matchracing Tour)Top 50 ISAF World Ranking Open

‘We’re well aware of the importance of the activation of a sponsorship. With our in-house (corporate) event manager and active online media accounts we’ll make sure to get the most out of our partnerships’.

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The Goal

She Sails Match Racing TeamTeam She Sails is basically a group of 'chicks who dig sailing'. It’s an all-female team in a ‘men’s world’, racing mainly in the open match racing circuit. The team started December 2012 as a match racing team because that's just the best there is: excitement of only 15 minutes to play for; the all-or-nothing game and intensive crew work which will make or break your performance.

It took a while to get a team together where everyone is 100% committed to the team and has the drive to build as a team through this campaign. After the World Championships in 2014, Rikst Dijkstra took over the helm, and since then we’ve already made a lot of progress and made it to place 20 on the Women’s World Ranking (November 2014).

We’re looking forward to the next season and beyond! Are you joining us?

Ranking:

ISAF World Ranking Open (15-10-2014): 185 (Dutch #8)ISAF World Ranking Women (15-10-2014): 20 (Dutch #2)

Events:Since July 2014

Event Date Boat type Grade Result

Krefeld Match Race (GER) 6-7-2014 B/One 3 9Dutch Match Cup Qualifier (NED) 22-8-2014 Maxfun 25 3 7Potsdamer Yacht Club Match Race (GER) 1-9-2014 B/One 4 4September Match Race Plon (GER) 21-9-2014 Hunter 707 4 3Alster Act 25, Hamburg (GER) 11-10-2014 J22 3 8Slag om Delft (NED) 19-10-2014 J22 5 2

The results

The programme

Events 2015

ISAF Womens World Championship - DenmarkWIM Series - professional womens match racingseries - at least 1 event in 2015Dutch National Championship Match RacingDutch Match Cup QualifierGrade 3 and 4 events in Europe

Training

Winter Series Dutch Match & Team Racing AssociationTeam Heiner Spring SeriesSelf-organized training sessions Physical trainingRule-knowledge study sessions

Rikst Dijkstra26 years old, Architect/Engineer

Rikst started racing in the youth squads in dinghy classes as many sailors and switched to keel boats and yachts during university. As a J22 and Farr 30 helm and X-35 and Melges 24 successful tactician, she's a helm not to under estimate!

Best results2th J22 Europeans 20134th X35 Worlds 20113th Amateur Tour de France a Voile 20102nd Splash Worlds 2005Podium Optimist Europeans 20033x Winner Dutch Student Nationals

Helmsmen

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On the main/spi trim is team captain Fettje. She started racing at university and fell in love with match racing after winning the University Match Racing Championship in 2008. Sailed J22 and later on J105 for 3 years. Since the start of the team she is mainly sailing in match races.

Fettje Osinga29 years old, Freelance Sailing Event and Online Communications Manager

Main & Spi trim / Team Manager

Trimmer and pit is Rozan. Also a sailing chick who started racing at a young age in several dinghy classes. Joined Fettje on the J105 as jib trimmer and pit and moved on to the Melges 24 class.

Rozan Gilles31 years old, Senior Consultant

Jib Trim

On the bow is Mirthe. She started sailing recreational at a young age. About 5 years ago she started racing more often. First at the Tirion 21 and other keelboats and later on as the bow-girl of one of the top teams of the Dutch Melges 24 circuit. This is her first match racing season and she likes it!

Mirthe Kramer31 years old, behavioural scientist

Bow

Let’s build this campaign together!With the Worlds as the major event in 2015

Let’s talk trough the possibilities over coffee as there’s no such thing as a standard package for sponsorship. We both want to achieve our goals, don’t we?

Fettje Osingafettje@shesails.nl+31654234393Skype: fettjeosinga

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