Stokes Bay Training
- 2/3 April 2011
Photos : Tania Samus
http://www.photoskiff.com/sailing/stokesbaytr11/
Russ Clark ran a fantastic 2 day training
event at Stokes Bay SC on Sat 2 and Sun 3 April. The
Stokes Bay Musto Fleet shared the crewing a second RIB
so the training could expand to 20 boats.
This was the format:
Sat
1030-1115 Intro, Safety Brief and exercise briefing
1130-1330 Sailing session 1 (boat handling)
1130-1430 Lunch (Bring your own or from the Cafe next
to the Club)
1430-1630 Sailing Session 2 (Starting, short course
racing)
1700-1800 Debrief and Q&A
Sun
0930 Briefing
1015-1400 Sailing Session (Racing, speed work, boat
handling)
1430 Lunch in Club and debrief
1600 Relax
Below is a summary from Chris Wright:
Russ, like Sten and Kit training has
asked for a few lines of feedback,
I must start like I did with Sten and Kits training,
that to miss this training was a bad idea, you will
find it hard to get this standard again at this location
with such a good lot of lads.
The tips that came through were thick and fast again,
1. Mark your main sheet to show the
quarter out position and to show the gybe in windy position.
2. Mark your kite halyard to show
the fully up position.
3. Get on the wire as soon as you can downwind even
in the very light stuff
4. Mast rake settings
5. You need to know the time of high
water, put the time down on the boat with the map of
the tides for the sea area from the Internet.
6. Have a practice run to the pin
end of the line, the time will change as the tide will
push you at a fast rate at Stoke Bay, take transits.
7. Have a practice run to the committee
boat side of the line, the time will change as the tide
will push you at a fast rate at Stoke Bay, take transits.
8. Have a practice run down the of
the line, the time taken to travel between the marks
will change dependent on the tide, going left to right
or right to left, as the tide will push you at a fast
rate or slow you, take transits.
9. Up the first beat head to the favoured
tide side of the beat, reference your tide diagram for
the hour of the race, race 1 would start 1300 hours
could be high tide + 2 hours, race 2 would mean looking
at the next diagram, or two down the sheets.
10. Only sail two-thirds to the lay
lines unless the tides are strong and very one sided,
take transits
11. Downwind take a transit to see
if the tide is pushing you sideways, only sail two –thirds
to a lay line unless the tides are one sided, take transits.
12. On the waves get your weight forward
once the boat slows, if the wave slows you the boat
sticks in the water, head up or down to sail through
the lowest waves ahead, like going through parked cars
in a car park, look behind to catch a big wave in light
winds.
13. Move 60cm back on the racks than
inland waters in any breeze or waves upwind. Just some
of tips.
The downwind practice, two boats lengths
apart showed if you mess up the gybe then you end up
going high to miss the boat now below and their wind
shadow, if you get it right you can power away and sail
your own course.
The upwind practice showed that a
duff tack will cost you big time, the best of all was
the three starts and then a race, I managed for the
first time to hold my lane before going bow down for
speed, for one race I was above Bruce holding my lane
for 15 seconds, I then went in to adjust my kicker and
lost half a boat length, he then power off without me,
should have left the kicker alone for a while, good
training boat on boat, lots of boat on boat upwind training
with my eyes wde open on the faster boys ahead.
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