We will focus on starts/acceleration and lane holding, crowded weather mark roundings, and then maintaining your position or improving on the second beat drill. Starting practice -> 1-2 Practice Starts… work hard to get a lane on each start…. hold it and be able to execute your plan. Then Ill let you go to a…. […]

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Good wind today. Starting line work: Practice starts…. then a race. You won’t know which will be the race, so plan to get decent starts each time. Heavier-wind boat handling around marks DRILLS –FTL, then race to a leeward gate, working for position in breeze and using great boat handling to gain. — Crowded weather […]

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Maybe practice: -final beat chase -cover schemes on final beat -switch into: Zander/Rees // Thomas/Robby // Owen Alex 420 Coach Boat(s) 1 Thomas Raam 2 Robby Lilly 3 Owen Scarlett 4 Luke Audrey 5 Alex 6 Ava Regan 7 Zander Rees 8 Kyle Lila 9 Geoff Helena 10 11 12 OUT FJ Gavin 1 Jack […]

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Depending on breeze amount/steadiness, we will do a series of Team races with the following teams below. We will likely employ the simpler “3-marks across” Digital-N course, which means that the mark representing the committee boat end of the start line will also serve as Mark 3; and the mark that serves as Mark 2 […]

Read more "Practice Tuesday 5-18-2021"

Team Race Practice 420 Coach Boat(s) 1 Thomas Raam 2 Robby Lilly 3 Owen Scarlett 4 Jack Alex Audrey 5 Kyle Lila Zander 6 Ava Helena 7 Rees 8 Nate Julia Gavin 9 Chase Regan 10 Will John Kate 11 12 Chris M. Reese

Read more "Practice Monday 5-17-2021"

Looks like mostly lighter winds today. We will do our best. Practice 1: light air weight trim: low and slow (gentle). Consider slight heel to help boat balance Practice 2:: Always be mindful of over-trimming Drills: Normal warm ups, maybe a “survivor” wind sprint Downwind, 3 whistles = a “Gybe-Round“, in which you will approximate […]

Read more "Practice Wednesday 5-12-2021"

Practice 1 Today working on crisp, sharp FJ roll-tacks and re-entering the world of FJ sailing, and matching roll/flatten to each unique wind/wave conditions all the time. Working hard on understeering downwind in maneuvers. You may want to practice rudderless DW sailing if you get the chance Practice 2 Use old FJ sails today. The […]

Read more "Practice Monday 5-10-2021"

420 Coach Boat(s) 1 Owen Alex 2 Thomas Raam 3 Robby Lilly 4 Zander Regan John 5 Kyle Lila 6 Rees Reese 7 8 9 Nate Julia 10 Will Kate 11 Chase Helena 12 Jack Audrey OUT FJ Scarlett 1 Ava 2 Gavin 3 Chris M. 4

Read more "Practice Thursday 5-6-2021"

420 Coach Boat 1 Owen Alex 2 Thomas Raam 3 Robby Lilly 4 Zander Rees 5 Kyle Lila Reese 6 Ava Scarlett 7 Kate 8 Chris M. Gavin 9 Nate Julia 10 John 11 Jack Audrey 12 Chase Helena OUT FJ Regan 1 2 Will 3

Read more "Practice Tuesday 5-4-2021"

Scored Race Day. No Meeting, head right out ASAP. We may try a hybrid trapezoid course, maybe, maybe not. We’ll see. Otherwise we will do as many W/L fleet races as possible.Your goal for today is to set a goal or two as a team, work on them and then evaluate afterward your progress. 420 […]

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