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: Work on better downwind boat control and timing with your partner on tacks and gybes. Practice 2: Make SURE you under-trim the jibs out of a tack, and then sheet in smoothly as the boat accelerates. If you can’t point, often your jib trim is too tight and/or your mainsail trim isn’t tight […]
Read more "Practice 5-11-2021"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"LAUNCH COACH BOAT. Do NOT block accessway to ramp before getting the coach boat out first so we can launch it. Feel free to begin launching with 5-6 people as soon as possible. Wind might die on us, so we will launch the coach boat and get right out on the water.Normal warm-ups to start […]
Read more "Practice Wednesday, 5-5-2021"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"Announcements: Girls Regatta Wednesday Weekend upcoming (Girls in NY) Saturday at Gunpowder? Team Photo Baker Trophy All in 420’s Today. Normal Warm up with everyone TR Team: Work on 2,3,6/1,4,5 on DW, offset, and final beat. This is a critical, unstable combo. Video from last week’s Race Day: https://share.icloud.com/photos/04i_6uPbVYbephTRL4WJfBfgQ 420 Coach Boat 1 Zander Rees […]
Read more "Practice Monday 5-3-2021"Today will be our last day on the water this week. Tomorrow, I would like our varsity TR team to meet in my classroom after school to go over team racing.We will work on our Flying Junior handling for the teams competing this weekend, talk about that a bit and go out an execute some […]
Read more "Practice Thursday 4-29-2021"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 […]
Read more "Race Day, Wednesday 4-28-2021"420 Coach Boat 1 2 3 Helena 4 5 Ava Scarlett 6 Patrick Regan 7 8 9 Chase Gavin 10 Will John 11 Chris M. Kate 12 Nate Julia OUT FJ 1 Zander Reese 2 Thomas Raam Rees 3 Robby Lilly 4 Owen Alex 5 Kyle Lila 6 Jack Audrey
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Severn School Sailing Team 