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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Spring 2017 Run Results

Bruce Sam 17:00 Bruce Jordan 17:09 Fagan Mariner 18:08 Bayless Connor 18:22 Lamb Hayden 18:59 Reilly Sam 19:01 Houck Stephanie 19:13 McCollum Will 19:47 Taczak Sophie 20:02 Wahba Ryan 20:33 Hawkins Maddie 21:03 Reilly Blair 21:20 McNeil Caroline 22:01 Tindall Abbie 22:34 Bayless Caroline 22:34 Adam Marcus 22:38 Morgan Aidan 23:44 Cromwell Teddy 24:49 Smith […]

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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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TR Tuesday 1-24-2017

Review last time New Stuff: Create starting lingo First beat balance when losing 1st weather mark approach tips Season Outlook (who sails where and when) season schedule DEBRIEF; 4. TR TALK            a. Understand and think about 1st beat balance, both losing and winning.             b. Conservative […]

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TR Tuesday 1/10/2017

Today we talked only about starting, and added some responsibilities and details to team-only Playbook.  These are vital for every player on the team to know. Lessons: Learn the “tack away”. Appreciate the “chase” position instead of the “lead” in certain situations. Be fluid & flexible. Fast teams can leverage leverage to the right. Add this […]

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