In short, Tiffany is very good in explaining what she wants and what she expects from every crew members, never mind that she is having a scratch team that was assembled days before the Monsoon Cup Qualifier, she is a TWO time champions of the Malaysian Match Racing Championship.
Good crew members are hard to come by but her network has allowed her access to a vast talent pool from around the globe. Days before the qualifier it was reported that Reuben Corebett skipper of Black Sheep Racing is sailing with her, although that did not materialize.Yet She still have Jason Caroll a sailor filled with seamanship from doing delivering and skippering boats, Maximilian Soh Sea games and Asian Games Gold Medalist, and then she have 2 of the defending champion's winning team crew from 2009.
It it no doubt a scratch team but a closer look, this is a very strong scratch team, and this is evident by the way they proceeds to the semi-finals,
With Maxi acting as a tactician, Jason providing his seamanship and the 2 others providing stability and boat handling having sailed and trained on the boat before.
Tiffany's team is strong. And give 2 days to Tiffany to train them ;they are now a winning Team !
In the semi-final, she may have lost the first match, but with the wind blowing the next day for match 2, she was ruthless, she took control of all pre start, while Hazwan was more than happy just killing time doing rounds around the committee boat before the horn blows for the start and that made him very predictable. Tiffany just needed to disrupt his time to the line.
In the deciding match Tiffany clearly wanted it more, we can see from the pontoons that both teams were tired from 2 Round robins, after going ahead Hazwan does a split tack and allows separations between him and Tiffany. Unfortunately for Hazwan, Tiffany was in the lifting side of the course, rounded the windward mark first and she never looks back from there, winning the race for a match against her brother Jeremy Koo in the final.
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