Training at Whitstable Yacht Club

The 4th training event to be held this year by the MPSCA took place over Easter at Whitstable. The investment by the class in training up coaches has resulted in good training kicking the season off all over the UK with now 52 people attending training events.

This training was run free of charge to the attendees ...

The light wind weather forecast did not deter 15 MPS sailors from attending Whitstable Yacht Club for early season training.

The Saturday started with a boat set up session and took the sailors through the set up and use of the key controls in a range of conditions. The two coaches (Simon Reynolds & Rick Perkins) then went through the boats of each sailors as a check.

By this time there was just enough wind and the fleet went through some boat handling exercises followed by participation in the club race.

On the Sunday it was again very light so we team took the group through a detailed boat tuning exercise and also looked at a number of the key bimbles that are detailed in the "Pimp my Skiff" section on the website.

We then took an early lunch; followed by getting on the water for some more light weather training.

Lets hope the sun stays but the wind increases for the open at Felpham next weekend.

Thanks to Whitstable Yacht Club for making the facilities available to the visitors and Tatiana Samus who took these photos ...

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