HAUL BOTH COACH BOATS TODAY FOR SURE!!! Today will be Team Race Tuesday Your focus today will be working on (A) improving your team-work and boat handling in the FJ. This is the critical focus. Second focus is (B) working on communication with your teammates. I will occasionally sub in Caroline and maybe Abby as […]
Read more "SB Practice Tuesday 3-26"Spring Break Practice Week Race Series at least 2 races from Mon-Thurs. NO races on Fri. ALL teams MUST sail FJ’s at least one day or 3 races minimum/ No team will be required to sail a 420 if they do not want to. Teams missing races due to college visits will receive byes/average points […]
Read more "Practice Week Results #1"-Final Beat Drill, SNO -Downwind to leeward gate drill, SNO -a few Race Series Races. We will have a cumulative Race Series this week. FJ coach boat 1 Mariner Fagan Ryan Wahba 2 Jordan Bruce Andrea Riefkohl OUT 3 Sam Bruce Addi Harris Raam Fox 4 Maddie Hawkins Marcus Adam 5 Caroline Bayless Abby Tindall […]
Read more "Practice Monday 3-25"Hi Wind is gusty today: NO FJ’s or JV Sailing on the water today. ALL 420’s will be sailing and have launch priority. Assuming the whalers don’t start, I’d like to haul both of them at the end of practice tonight. we will warm up with the 12 boats with winidsprints, then go right to […]
Read more "Practice Friday 3-15"TR Basic Boat-handling/Crew Train Day Today we will work with new crews/skippers for the first part of practice. Drills will include basic tacking/gybing, and I want EVERYONE working on rolling the boat in tacks and gybes together. Addi/Andrea and Ryan will take out the second coach boat and help coach new crews. Please share information […]
Read more "Practice 3-14-2019"Today: We will start with some normal warm up drills. make sure all 12 z420’s are sailable. bring both extra boats in. Send trailer back out to lot. Make sure we have all 12 rudders, tillers, extensions, sails, etc. ALL 12 boats are being sailed on Friday. Check all universals, etc. for function TR PRACTICE […]
Read more "Practice Wednesday 3-13"Race Day Results Nice day on the Magothy River with a moderate and changing northerly at 5-12 knots. Great day for sailing. 2 coach boats worked all day!! 🙂 -Lots of tight packs off the line which allowed free boats to recover from bad starts, as in several cases boats competed wind-sprint style to the […]
Read more "Race Day Results 3-12"Practice Today and ROW. Today: Race Day. This will be an evaluative race day. Please head right out, and practice as you wish if you get out early. I will not wait for late/slow boats. I am going to set the start pretty far down the river today, maybe almost to the condos. We are […]
Read more "Practice Tueday 3-12"I will be a little late to practice today. Please rig up and head out. I will follow shortly. Extras head out in the whaler. I will start both boats so wait for me. Also, could you please take that 420 (gently) off of the trailer that’s near our shed, and put it on the […]
Read more "Practice Monday 3-11"-great day for the fans, maybe a little more frustrating for the sailors. W/NW wind 6-17 knots, with 30-40 degree wind shifts throughout. Winning the start today seemed not that important; boat 4 was over/hit the mark, spun, and was right back in it within 1/3 of the beat. -what was key today was being […]
Read more "Race Day Results 3-6-2019"
