Practice Video from Thursday 3-5-2020

Practice Monday 2-24-2020

Outlook for the Week (tentative) Based on the forecast for the week, we will Monday: Sail, or try to sail. If there is no wind, we will work on the boats more, and also do a dry-land crew training day Tuesday: MAKE-UP TEAM RUN. We will again try to sail tomorrow. If the forecast is […]

Practice Notes 10-8-2019

Today we did practice starts, first upwind beats, then DW in SNO to a leeward gate, finish upwind. Conditions: NE Wind 5-14 knots, with fairly consistent oscillations around 20-30 degrees at the most. Today the wind had a middle, and it simply went back and forth on either side of it. The race course was […]

Laser Practice Tips for Today: Know Your 90

Laser Cressy Practice DOWNWIND — Know your 90 Lots of guys sail “by the lee” and all over the place, often with the mainsheet out well past 90 degrees. This can be fast in very light conditions, but becomes trickier and less advantageous in more wind and more waves. Mark your mainsheet on land when […]

Race Day Notes, 9-04

Today was a w/sw wind from 4-10 knots, oscillating 20 degrees, or sometimes more, around the center of our race course, and in a rare achievement we set the race course from the get-go pretty well right in the middle of this wind, so no marks were ever moved. This has almost never happened before; […]

Protected: Practice Thursday 5-23-2019

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Protected: Practice Tuesday 5-14-2019