Emily Nagel, the Bermuda sailor, and her Team Vose-Glamour Racing crewmates endured mixed fortunes during yesterday’s opening day of the Women’s World Match Racing Championships in Cork, Ireland.

Nagel and her colleagues got their campaign off to a poor start after losing their first four round-robin matches against Denmark, United States, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

They managed to stop the rot, however, and bounced back with successive victories against the two teams representing hosts Ireland to end the day on a high note.

Nagel, a former Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club sailor and coach, is serving as trimmer and tactician on a team made up entirely of University of Southampton students.

With six matches remaining, Team Vose-Glamour, who are being led by helmswoman Annabel Vose, will look to continue their winning ways when racing resumes today.

The championship involves 13 teams made up of semi-professional sailors in the J80 Keelboat, competing for £10,000 ($16,700) in prize money.

Among the sailors competing is Camilla Ulrikkeholm, of Denmark, who tops the women’s world match racing rankings.

The event is being hosted by the Royal Cork Yacht Club in conjunction with the International Sailing Federation, and will continue until Sunday.

Elsewhere, Joshua Greenslade, the Bermuda sailor, and his St Mary’s College Seahawks team-mates, earned a place on the podium at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Team Race Championship in Maryland.

The Seahawks finished second at Monday’s championship behind Yale University, who successfully defended their title with a race to spare.

St Mary’s posted an 18-7 record to finish runners-up for the third straight year at the event.

The three-day championship involved 16 teams that sailed against each other in a single round, with the top eight teams advancing to a single championship round robin, followed by a final four round robin that determined the top three teams, and national champion.

Teams sailed in the LaserPerformance Z420s, and Club Flying Juniors.

The event is the second of three collegiate sailing national championships co-hosted by the US Naval Academy, and St Mary’s College, this spring.