Mark Rounding & Team Race Practice Day Warm up: Mark rounding discussion (before we go out) M.R. Drill 1: rabbit start, tack on whistle. 3 whisltes means race to a WM rounding and offset rounding. M.R. Drill 2: dw wing on/off, 3 whistles means race to a leeward gate and round it. Team Racing FTL […]
Read more "Practice Wednesday 10-9-2019"Fleet Race Practice Practice Starts. We will run several practice starts with Coach Beckman anchored; please work timing/acceleration on the starts, all the while working to be ON TIME and NOT over early. If you are set up poorly, or something happens, BAIL OUT EARLY. The best starts give you a clear air lane and […]
Read more "Practice Tuesday 10-8-2019"IMPORTANT NOTE: We WILL have a team meeting/workout tomorrow ON CAMPUS after Field Day!!!! Working on Team Race Boathandling/Game Practice Two teams starting in FJ’s should work today on starting strategies, team communication, etc. we will rotate the green team into the FJ’s after each race/drill. Today we will focus on beginning to build a […]
Read more "Practice Thursday 10-3-2019"Race Day; We’ve been working hard on boathandling and crew communication. Today will be a good day (with some good wind I hope) to test things out on a race course. Hope to experiment a bit with crews in different boats, depending on conditions. Tomorrow we will go back to FJ team racing. No Meeting; […]
Read more "Practice Wednesday 10-2-2019"Weather permitting: ( I think Mariner is out today…) Drills today will accommodate crew training on team racing. I will watch crews today on 2 things: anticipating boat handling moves, and communication leadership. Today crews MUST become part of the TR communication stream, if you don’t do this already. This is HOW dinghy crews win […]
Read more "Practice Tuesday 10-1-2019"FJ’s practice Team Racing today 420’s practice boat handling and fleet racing Lasers do some boat handling together. we will re-adjust the plan based on who is/can sail lasers today. z420 Coach Boat 1 2 3 4 Lilly Baker Anna Howell Ben Saunders 5 Nick Garcia Brooke Arnold Chris Sixbey 6 Kyle Reinecke Cole […]
Read more "Practice Monday 9-30"Practice PART I -warm up with everyone: follow the leader, slowing down/stopping/accelerating. Stay bow-to stern, do NOT hit each other. -FTL race to weather mark. I may call out specific boats/colors to go first… -FTL downwind gate-choice practice. Work very hard to pick a side, and pass boats at the leeward gate rounding. Sail final […]
Read more "Practice Wednesday 9-25-2019"TR Practice -in your group of 3 colors (except for black, who lost a skipper), head right out and do pig-in-middles. -Then we do final beat Balance drill. I will explain before we head out. -work on speed passbacks, slow passbacks, and when you are the pig, make it really hard for them to pass […]
Read more "Practice Tuesday 9-24"Laser (boathandling) & 420 (team race) Practice We will warm up altogether today, and do a split-off upwind windsprint, and then a split off downwind as well. practice starts together then maybe go our separate ways, we’ll see what the wind brings LASERS looks like 4 or 5 lasers today We will do simple upwind […]
Read more "Practice Monday 9-23-2019"The most interesting RACE DAY in the world We were going to be 2 lasers down today, so we will move Laser day to Monday. This will also give our weekend teams a final chance to prepare for our regattas. No meeting, head out immediately W4 unless otherwise instructed On-the-water judging is active X flag […]
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Severn School Sailing Team 