Practice Wednesday 3-29-2017

Warm up -FJ boat speed -tacking/gybing TR Drills -FTL starts / Recognize-execute to marks 1-2. Please work very hard ON BEING ABLE to FLEET RACE on the first beat as much as possible. –1/4/5  and/or 2/3/6 from mark 2 to finish. The conservative, playbook-approved thing to do here, when in a 2/3/6, is to play […]

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Practice Today 3-28-2017

NO SAILING. Do not rig. Please go through each boat. Pick a studdybuddy and inspect the boats together. I will have lists for you to check off. We will then look over the venue, marks, etc. Work out as normal. Please also let’s calibrate some running routes.

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Monday Practice 3-27-2017

Today we will sail, but if there is no wind we will: Work out at the marina as normal. Let’s create 3-4 running routes, figure out their distances, and get them set so we know how much we are running. Consider making personal training goals, writing them down, and working to reach/exceed them. Go through […]

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Monday 3/20/2017 Practice Teams

Assuming these people are here: 420 Bayless Connor McNeil Caroline 420 Houck Stephanie Morgan Aidan 420 Bayless Caroline White Camille Reilly Sam Reilly Blair BLACK McCollum Will 420 Bruce Jordan Taczak Sophie 420 Bruce Sam Wahba Ryan 420 Hawkins Maddie Adam Marcus 420 Fagan Mariner Tindall Abbie BLUE Riefkohl Andrea Harris Addi Lamb Hayden 420 […]

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Practice, Föstudagur 10 March

If you were Icelandic, your last name would be your fathers first name, and then if you are a male the suffix would be “…sson” and if you are a girl it would be “…dottir”       So, my fathers name is Thomas. My Icelandic last name would be “Thomas Thomassson”  . It’s  föstudagur. […]

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Thursday 3-9-2017

Crews Work out / Skippers Rig. Normal on-the-water warm ups (rabbit start tacking, etc) Final Beat Combo: 1,3 6. Each team will do a final beat combo in a 1,3,6 three times, so you are in each position. Coming back downwind, we will do a 1,5,6 combination to marks 3,4. Today you need to talk […]

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Wednesday 08 March Practice

Today: Skippers work out, crews rig De-Brief from yesterday Plan today is upwind tacking (use new DoubleDemo Rabbit start) Downwind gybing, slowing down, and gybing. TR DRILL:   downwind covering. If breeze is heave we may go to heavy air crews. RED OUT 1 Bayless Connor McNeil Caroline 2 Houck Stephanie Morgan Aidan Camille 3 […]

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Team Race Tuesday 3/7/2017

4-Team Scrimmage today. No drills, just team racing, start to finish. Talk to your team about what it is you want to work on, and how you will approach today. We will try to get each team to sail against each other, at least once. Please plan to make a list of things that went […]

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Thursday 3-2-2017

NO SAILING TODAY Meet after school in Teel 302 at 2:45, preferably dressed for working out. Go over TR Playbook together, and some things we talked about over the winter. Divide up into teams and begin to discuss communication. Develop team terms, who says what when, etc. Begin to develop a Red Team playbook (mostly […]

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Practice Tuesday 2/28/2017

Today we will ALL meet at the Bus Station to bring down some coach boats. After hitching up boats, we will go to the sailing center. All must complete the run before any sailing. Launch coach boats, move marks down to the boats Make an inventory of missing parts. Create a list. I will place […]

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