Race Day Wednesday 4/62016

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Practice Plan Tuesday 4/5/2016

Hi Meet in Coach Duncan’s room today! No going to the Marina. Please be work-out ready. We will attempt to have a scrimmage/race day tomorrow, as it is supposed to be warmer.

MDISA Spring TR Championship Scoreboard

Hi You can follow the action and results here: http://mdisasailing.com/ and here: 2016 MDISA Spring Team Race Championship Sailing Instructions

Practice Plan, Friday 01 April

Lucky Break! I got a call last night, and I am so psyched that Lloyd Thornburg is in town, with his MOD 70 Phaedo III. Lloyd is a friend of mine, and he’s agreed to take us out for a spin on his latest trimaran. Meet as normal at the marina, and we will ferry […]

Practice Plan Thursday 3/31/2016

Today is a Team Race Regatta Day. We will have 4 TR teams, and we will do a few drills to work on boat handling, especially for the FJ group, and then team race with fully umpired, start-to-finish, scored team races. The 2 boats with Coach White will work on boat handling and some match […]

Practice Wednesday 3-30-2016

Team Race Practice today. What is Balance? Why is it important. We will make up teams when we get to the rink, and see who’s there. Quiz. Look at the picture below, and tell me why it IS or IS NOT and example of balance for BLUE. This is not a trick question, it’s simple… […]

Practice Tuesday 29 March

Hi We will focus of course on TR this week. Today, Red & Black sail 420’s. You will sail some FJ’s this week as well. Looks like I brought the wind home with me. The BVI had 20-30 knots every day and night. Looks to be close to that during the day, with a few […]

SSA Team Race Regatta Report & Results

Long day today at SSA, but the day was a good learning experience for the Severn School Sailing Team. This regatta almost never happened; we were within 2 minutes of cancelling the event, when the breeze finally came in from the N-NE at 4-7 knots. We were able to sneak in a full round robin […]

Practice Plan Friday 3-11

Roster For Today PLAN Boat handling drills (all together) Team Race Practice Starts FTL Team Race starts and first beats DW Leg in prescribed combos Final Beats in prescribed combos Second team work on 2 on 2 team races

Race Day Results & Report

Overall, very impressed with the sailing today. Seven of the nine boats had top 3 finishes today; that’s great news for our team. Lots of video from today, will upload soon. Sorry not to get Marcus in! We had a missing skipper, but much was learned on the coach boats today. WSW wind 4- 8 […]