Monday Practice: 2 Goals: Crew boat handling focus on roll tacks, acceleration especially at the start, & sail trim, upwind and downwind (in FJ and in 420). Fleet race tactics in action. Drills: Practice Starts with video on a few boats. Discuss what you need to do together to accelerate and hold lane. Very often […]
Read more "Practice Monday 3-9-2020"Here are some of the videos taken from Thursday: 10 & 12: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0qZg4Pkc_pV_R_PL3Wtpi1qrQ 3 & 8: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0hBDiP23Y67CxsosWatE4ZWWw 4 & 6 : https://share.icloud.com/photos/0IeXfxxuLLVqCoBaRJ2Ql_NBQ 1 & 9 : https://share.icloud.com/photos/0aO2VgA1KTr46dlVX_9P5ktNg Race Plan, boat 9: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0OeLAakO5tIOHAHBlYbgmnukg Race execution, boat 9: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0NCbw4G_b0vNS0m-8UmJNXXqw Race Plan, Boat 7: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0c1cT6Grvgcek8WjGP2PZAscA Race execution, boat 7: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0AQEDZj4NDeJFtTRxXGyl3P3A
Read more "Practice Video from Thursday 3-5-2020"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"Race Day Monday Conditions: Brisk, blustery and furtive Southerly today, with wind speeds from 6 to 18 knots, and few gusts near the end of the day above 20 knots. This wind was not something to figure out. There were upper-right right hand shifts, in race 2& 3 a long-train runnin’ left hand shift off […]
Read more "Race Day Results 3/2/2020"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 […]
Read more "Practice Friday, 2-28-2020"Hi; Hace Viento! Due to X-treme conditions, we will work out as a team on campus today. That’s everyone. Please meet outside the weight room at 1520 dressed to work out. Practice today will be over by 1645.
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Severn School Sailing Team 