Musto Training
Day at Stokes Bay 5/6 April
A fresh Force 4 from the NW greeted 8
sailors who had travelled to Stokes Bay to receive Rick
Perkins’s pearls of wisdom.
After a quick brief from Rick and videomeister
Paul Manning we hit the water. For some it was a bit
too much and respect is due to Nick Powell for taking
his first ever sail in a Musto in conditions best described
as challenging (even Andy Peake was capsizing). Therefore
with a slightly depleted fleet the morning session started
and soon the sailors warmed up as we started on the
short line and negotiated the tight windward-leeward
course.
Having completed two ordinary races the
starting became more complex, as the start could be
at any time in a one minute window. This put the emphasis
on boat handling and slow speed boat control, which
would have been tricky at any time, but was made harder
with the additional element of a spring tide. All the
fun and games were captured on video and we returned
to the club for lunch and de-brief.
The video debriefs were brilliant, how
did coaches ever manage without them. We were all able
to see the good and bad points of our technique in glorious
technicolour and discuss them before going out to correct
them in the afternoon. As always there were enough capsizes
and dodgy incidents caught on film to provoke ‘hilarious’
banter and debate.
We headed out for an hour of tacking and
gybing on the whistle. With the combinations of Rick’s
hints and tips and this intensive practice (probably
a championship’s worth of boathandling in a day) all
felt they had definitely improved. After some short
races to finish us off we headed back in.
Unfortunately due to people being snowed
in and various other ‘wintery’ excuses there was no
club racing on Sunday.
Many thanks to Rick and Paul for coming
down and getting thoroughly frozen as we got warmer.
Photo
credits to Bruce Keen who took the accompanying photos
while sailing (although I notice none are from the trapeze
with the kite up – CHALLENGE).
Vid's are now on You Tube.
To the right of the image there is a link
highlighted that says “more info” if you tell people
to click on that, it gives my thoughts of the particular
footage.
The other clips can be viewed from the
rolling menu, and they contain “more info” appropriate
to their footage.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2qa2EcAUbNI
Attendees:
Marl Addison – Sunderland/Weston YC
Andy Peake – Eastbourne SovereignSC
Paddy Gamble – Hayling Island SC
Nick Powell – Whitstable YC
Bruce Keen – Stokes Bay SC
Russ Belben- Stokes Bay SC
Dan Vincent – Stokes Bay SC
Dave Pilkington – Stokes Bay SC
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