Practice Friday: YouGotta Regatta Rules: 5 on 5. No sailboat-to-sailboat contact, period. Other than that, most other rules are somewhat open for interpretation. Course will be a Modified NASCAR/WhirlyBird. This intricate course will be described at the Skippers Meeting. You will be required no only to score lower (better) than your opponent, and as you […]
Read more "Practice Friday 3-13-2020"Drills: Hope for a E/SE wind? Black|Blue: 2 vs. 2 around TR around course. Red/Green Normal TR start to mark 1. Then, get in a 1,2,3,4,5,6. Chase to Mark 3. End drill around mark 3. Repeat 3 times. Like to try Red in a 1-4-6 as well if there’s time. Red, please discuss your thoughts on chase […]
Read more "Practice Thursday 3-12-2020"Team Race Wednesday (if wind) We may get our magic Magothy easterly today, and if so, we will team race. Either way, PLEASE haul the “Admirals” whaler. Drills: Black/Blue TR around course. Red/Green Normal TR start to mark 1. Then, get in a 1,2,3,4,5,6. Chase to Mark 3. End drill around mark 3. Repeat 3 times. […]
Read more "Practice Wednesday 3-11-2020"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"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"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 