Practice Wednesday 9-20-2017

Warm up with Tacking practice. Work very hard to roll late, and hard. Skippers must roll harder. We will then do a few more Race Day races for our series. 1 Maddie Hawkins  Blair Reilly Heavy crew sub in 2  Caroline Bayless Abbie Tindall 3 Mariner Fagan Caroline McNeil 4 Sam Bruce Ryan Wahba 5 […]

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Race Day Results 9-19-2017

Race Day Boat handling was average/below average for all Need to roll tack far later, almost all the time. You have to work on timing. Start the turn slow, but then speed it up as the boat slows, and then roll hard and late. Skippers MUST roll more. Crews can’t do it by themselves. The […]

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PRACTICE Tuesday 9-19-2017

LAUNCH COACH BOATS BEFORE RIGGING SAILBOATS Today (and likely tomorrow) will be RACE DAY. We will do a brief warm up for boat that get out early. If it’s actually windy we may also try heavy crew combinations. Since we have not had much sailing in the last week, we will use today and tomorrow […]

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Practice Thursday 9-14-2017

Today we will warm up together doing rabbit start wind sprints. Camille would sub in for Addi and Jack will sub in for Parker. We will do a race or two for fleet race practice. Then, JV will then go with Coach Arnold and the Varsity will come with me to do some TR. FJ […]

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DC Sail Varsity Results

DC SAIL VARSITY FLEET 910 – Final Results Congratulations to A Div:  Mariner/Caroline B Div:  Sam/Ryan …for winning the DC Sail Varsity event. This was at their new venue, during a Nationals baseball game, just across the street. It’s a miniature Charles River, with humbling and inexplicable wind changes. Our team overall minimized risk, avoided […]

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