Notes & Tips

• ALL BOATS go inside gate, lined up before we leave for the night
• Rig tension: make sure it is tight, but don’t kill yourself making it so tight that something might break. Balance in the boat comes with sail trim and weight trim, using the boom vang, fairleads (FJ) or weather sheeting (420)
• All dollies MUST be stored inside the gate while you are sailing. This is a pain in the neck, but it must be done.
• There is supposed to be really light wind. NO MEETING, GO RIGHT OUT. Stay close together so we can get good footage of you asap

Practice

• warm ups
• Practice 1 (body mechanics, weight trim/positioning)
  • weight trim movements upwind (shift gears with weight in lulls and puffs
  • move quickly but with agility and a light touch
  • crew and skipper balance each other’s weight positioning. when possible try to sit as close together as you can (not always possible). Don’t ever fight each other with weight trim (this unbalances)
  • downwind: stay low, move forward / aft as needed
  • light air body mechanics: Stay low, roll late, counter the over-flatten

Things to Know

• “FTL” means Follow the Leader
• Almost always our rabbit starts involve a port-tack rabbit upwind, and a starboard gybe rabbit downwind
• When you are the rabbit, wait far enough away so that when the whistle blows, boats have time to react to, and prepare for, your path
• Watch for hand signals; I use them a lot

 

420
1	Annie Sitzmann	Annabelle Ulak	OUT
2	Alex Baker	Kai Davids
3	Harrison Szot	Charlotte MacDonald
4	Will Mohler	Ana Fishback
5	Chris Hanson	Bella Ford
6	Antoine Ismael	Brooke Perchinsky
7	Tali Gaver	Lila Knoepfle
8	Ashton Perkins	Parker Lefever
9	Gaetan Ismael	Char Wilkin
10	Colin Schwab	Will Tweed
11	Emory McAllister	Eliza Brenia
12	T	Hudson Grow
			Coach Boat
FJ
1
2
3	CC Carey	Elle Maddox
4	Margot McGeagh	Ellie Lawrence	OUT
5	Grace Crespin	Farrah Maddox
6	Georgia Knoepfle	Charlotte Stites
J70
	Oliver
	Gabriel