Notes

• All boats go inside gate before the end of practice today
• Make sure your sail number matches your bow number.
• Bus has to leave practice early today so if you happen to be taking the bus home, you are leaving early.
• Weather at our venue:  https://tempestwx.com/station/45972/grid
• General forecast today is light/nothing. WX model shows we may sneak in a Magothy Easterly around practice time. Therefore, when you get to the venue, RIG AND GO right out. NO meeting… no sitting around.
• Leave your cover where your boat will be. We will NUMBER ALL COVERS today
• Today will be the last day of open evaluation. We will speak with you about placement/designation going forward.

Practice 1

• We will likely line up and go upwind as far as we can, then DW. then do a DW gate rounding thing like we did on Friday.
• Work today on more aggressive body mechanics when tacking and gybing. A simple thing you can do to improve your roll tacks (and to some degree gybes) is having both the skipper and crew roll and flatten at the same time.  Anyone would agree that the more weight you apply to the windward rail, the easier it is to roll the boat over.
• flatten the boat much harder after gybing
• Skipper work on hand switch behind back when at apex of roll (standing up) so you can more aggressively flatten
• Crew: Backwards vs. forward tack… learn the differences. learn to backwards tack in e420 and fj for sure
• Warm-up with tack/gybe, etc.
• If there’s time we will do a team race between RED and GREEN and maybe RED and BLUE
• If time we will try the secondary line-up

 

One of the biggest differences between a good roll tack and a great roll tack is the timing of the roll.  The vast majority of sailors tend to roll a 420 or FJ too early.  Unless it is very windy, rolling the second the jib backwinds is not ideal for effective tacks.  Many sailors get in a crunch, or get really excited, and roll before the boat is ready.  It’s natural to think that the faster you start your roll, the faster the tack is.  However, by rolling too early, you will get less help from the sails to turn the boat, and will actually steer the boat down with your weight while turning up with the tiller.  This creates a lot of friction with the rudder and the water, and you will have to steer much more to turn through the wind, slowing your boat down.  Additionally, backwinding the jib helps the boat turn during a tack significantly.  Thus, the longer you allow the jib to backwind, the less rudder you will have to use to steer through a tack.

As a general rule of thumb, you want to wait till the boat is at or just past head to wind before rolling the boat.  Waiting until this point will allow you to use less rudder, and will also allow you to use the wind to help roll over the boat.  If you go earlier, you will roll the boat against the face of the wind, forcing you to use much more effort to roll the boat over.

There is no exact time to wait before rolling the boat over, and it will change depending on the wind.  For example, in light air, you want to wait a relatively long time before rolling over the boat, as it will take longer for the sails to help you steer through the wind.  If it is really windy, you may want to cross sides quickly, as soon as the jib backwinds.  As soon as both sailors are hiking, you should not roll at all, especially in the FJ.  Instead, you should still use the sails to keep power in the boat the entire time, and simply switch sides and start hiking, when the jib backwinds.

PRIMARY

420
1	Ava Cornell	Scarlett Harris	OUT
2	Annie Sitzmann	Helena English	Cooper Morton
3	Harrison Szot	Ana Fishback
4
5	Chris Hanson	John Szynal
6	Chris McCollum	Jack Lefever-Farino
7	Will Friedell	Annie Lapides
8	Sam de los Reyes	Natalie King
9	Nate Long	Charlotte MacDonald
10	Antoine Ismael	Kate Castleberry
11	Thomas	Reese Corckran	Coach Boat
12	Kyle	Maura McPartlin	Alex Baker
FJ
1
2
3	Will Mohler	Lila Knoepfle
4	Julia Hlousek	Char Wilkin
5	Oliver Marquinez	Mack Howell
6	Gordon Kappel	Lydia Saunders

 

 

SECONDARY

420
1	Ava Cornell	John Szynal
2	Annie Sitzmann	Reese Corckran
3	Harrison Szot	Scarlett Harris
4
5	Chris Hanson	Jack Lefever-Farino
6	Chris McCollum	Annie Lapides
7	Will Friedell	Natalie King
8	Sam de los Reyes	Kate Castleberry
9	Nate Long	Maura McPartlin
10	Antoine Ismael	Helena English
11	Thomas	Charlotte MacDonald
12	Kyle	Lila Knoepfle
FJ
1
2
3	Will Mohler	Lydia Saunders
4	Ana Fishback	Julia Hlousek
5	Oliver Marquinez	Char Wilkin
6	Gordon Kappel	Mack Howell