RACE DAY We will have a Race Day, given the good wind forecast for today, and the poor forecast for tomorrow. In fact, make sure you have workout gear packed for tomorrow. If the wind is too light, we will have a chalk-talk meeting then workout. Key Focus Today: Get out on the water as […]
Read more "Practice Tuesday 3-10-2020"Monday Practice: 2 Goals: Crew boat handling focus on roll tacks, acceleration especially at the start, & sail trim, upwind and downwind (in FJ and in 420). Fleet race tactics in action. Drills: Practice Starts with video on a few boats. Discuss what you need to do together to accelerate and hold lane. Very often […]
Read more "Practice Monday 3-9-2020"Here are some of the videos taken from Thursday: 10 & 12: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0qZg4Pkc_pV_R_PL3Wtpi1qrQ 3 & 8: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0hBDiP23Y67CxsosWatE4ZWWw 4 & 6 : https://share.icloud.com/photos/0IeXfxxuLLVqCoBaRJ2Ql_NBQ 1 & 9 : https://share.icloud.com/photos/0aO2VgA1KTr46dlVX_9P5ktNg Race Plan, boat 9: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0OeLAakO5tIOHAHBlYbgmnukg Race execution, boat 9: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0NCbw4G_b0vNS0m-8UmJNXXqw Race Plan, Boat 7: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0c1cT6Grvgcek8WjGP2PZAscA Race execution, boat 7: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0AQEDZj4NDeJFtTRxXGyl3P3A
Read more "Practice Video from Thursday 3-5-2020"Q: What is a Redneck Friday? A: When you take lunch break, and never return to work. “You might be a redneck if…” any of your front room pieces of furniture is inflatable. the family business requires a lookout. you put in a 40 hour week at Walmart, but don’t work there. you were ever […]
Read more "Redneck Friday, 3-6-2020"Practice today: Boat-handling spotlight: Light air boat-handling requires ability both to be very physical while also being spry enough to feel/know when to be still and let the sails/foils do its thing. Too much movement/rocking can be both illegal and potentially slow. Be extremely careful not to over-trim sails too soon, or at all in […]
Read more "Practice Thursday, 3-5-2020"TR Practice: Covering/Pass-backs, upwind and down. Work it; hunt and kill. Your goal for today is to work on your boat-handling ability to execute team race moves, with a partner. It’s all about teamwork. Today you will be divided up into groups of 3. You will help run your own drills. Please communicate with each […]
Read more "Practice Wednesday 3-4-2020"Team Race Practice Today we will do a few boat handling drills all together: RS windsprint, tack on whistle, stop/start DW gybe, etc. 3 whistles is slow down to a stop if possible, 3 whistles is start up again. Practice team races with the double-whistle. during the race, if/when i blow 2 whistles everyone stops. […]
Read more "Practice Tuesday 3-3-2020"Race Day Monday Conditions: Brisk, blustery and furtive Southerly today, with wind speeds from 6 to 18 knots, and few gusts near the end of the day above 20 knots. This wind was not something to figure out. There were upper-right right hand shifts, in race 2& 3 a long-train runnin’ left hand shift off […]
Read more "Race Day Results 3/2/2020"Depending on what happens, we will have 1 of 2 practices: OPTION 1 Video Practice I will video each boat doing a number of tacks, and then a number of gybes downwind. This will go in sail-number-order. I will set up at a mark. You round the mark to port and head upwind. Tack on […]
Read more "Practice Monday 3-2-2020"Downwind Day: Freedom of the Fool Downwind sailing is a bit underrated and easy to gloss over: its easy, relatively comfortable, and can be a one-tack straight shot. Time to relax? No. There’s a lot more there than many sailors either notice, think about, or go after. Only the best (and most successful) teams approach […]
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Severn School Sailing Team 