[Public-list] Practice day on 4/21

[Gordon Laco]

I wish I could attend.

I used to see Pat Healy in Toronto.  I didn't know he'd moved to the States.

G







> Fellow Alberg 30 Racers,
> 
> If you are receiving this multiple times, I apologize. I want to make sure
> that it gets to everybody, not just the racers.
> 
> As I announced at last Saturday's racing seminar, I will be organizing a
> racing practice session for 4/21 which is the Saturday before the NOOD. My
> goals for the practice are as follows:
> 
> 1. Give everybody an opportunity to get on the water and work out the kinks
> from not having been sailing over the winter.
> 2. Give less experienced racers an opportunity to baseline and hone their
> skills in a low-stress environment where we are all friendly and working
> together.
> 3. Foster and maintain the wonderful attitude of friendly competitiveness
> among the A30 racing community through on-water communication and knowledge
> sharing.
> 4. Help to raise the performance bar across the board to make the racing
> more competitive and more fun for everybody involved.
> 5. Boost turnout for the NOOD by lowering the barrier to entry and getting
> people enthused about going racing.
> 
> Pursuant to these goals, I would like the practice session to incorporate
> the following particular elements:
> 
> 1. Get experienced racers sailing with the less experienced with the
> explicit goal of knowledge transfer.
> 2. Use drills to give people opportunities to work on specific areas where
> they feel improvement is needed.
> 3. Communicate actively via VHF and cell phone to share knowledge and help
> others to improve.
> 4. If possible, utilize a powerboat to facilitate rotation of people from
> one boat to another with the goal of maximizing the amount of mixing that
> goes on between coaches and crews.
> 
> There are 2 main areas where we can focus: boat speed, and boat handling.
> Boat speed practice will mostly involve set up, sail trim, and technique for
> both upwind and downwind sailing. Drills for boat speed basically involve
> lining up boats together and sailing on the same tack for enough time to
> determine who is going faster and why. Boat handling practice involves going
> through the exercises of performing sail changes, turning the boat, tacking,
> gybing, rounding marks, etc. I think that having a mix of both elements will
> be good for everybody, but I would like to get input from interested parties
> so if you have specific items you want to work on, please let me know.
> 
> There are 2 possible ways that you can contribute to the practice session:
> 
> 1. Participate as a skipper or crew member.
> 2. Participate as a coach.
> 
> Please contact me off-list (by responding to me at jbergqui at gmail.com) to
> indicate if you are interested in participating and if so, how. When you
> respond, please include a list of specific items that you would like to
> focus on. For example, if you always have problems dousing the spinnaker,
> indicate that. Or if you feel that your upwind speed is just not as good as
> other people's, indicate that. Also if you have particular suggestions about
> schedule etc, let me know about them too.
> 
> My general plan is to organize a 10 AM rendezvous somewhere in or just
> outside Annapolis harbor with the plan of being tied up back at the dock by
> 4 or 5 PM. If you want to join later or leave early that is fine. The goal
> is to maximize participation and fun - not to stick to any hyper-specific
> schedule.
> 
> If you cannot make this particular session, I do believe that there will be
> other organized sessions through the year, so this is probably not the only
> time that we will do this.
> 
> I hope to hear from you soon.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> J Bergquist
> Calliope #287
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