Lesson # 3 Trevor’s comments: Only one person leaves the rail…prefeeding the tack and helping the chute go up the middle of the boat Chute always comes out the bag. Do not leave the rail until boat flattens (especially if … Continue reading
Lesson #2 : Light air gybing.Trevor’s comments: Note the crew moving to the windward side to initiate the gybe Floater person helps pull spin around – note final pull on leech is straight down. Spinnaker comes through before main (early … Continue reading
Lesson #1 – Tacking Light to medium – Note how crew does not go immediately to the high side but just spins in the legs…ready to move together to high side to flatten. Tactian helps with traveller when 5 person … Continue reading
Wednesday evening race #20 Shoot the mark and then do a gybe set…one of our first attempts at this manouver!! Video:
Wednesday evening race #19 Video of start: Video of first leeward rounding:
Wednesday evening race #18 North Westerly winds at 3-8 knots. Race course was 2 X 1 X Includes exciting footage of how NOT to round the windward mark…!! Solid start, got very close to Hallel, debatable whether we got too … Continue reading
Wednesday evening race #17 North Westerly winds at 8-10 knots. Race course was 3 1 X 3 X 3 Don’t go to that layline too early…!! Good solid start towards the boat (boat was favored by 10 degrees). Tacked a … Continue reading
Governors Cup August 31st – Sep 1st No F*&%$ing wind…!! For a flavour of the weekend see below:
Wednesday evening race #16 North Westerly winds at 8-12 knots. Race course was 3 7 3 X Small mistakes give up the first place…!! Quite a large left shift and lull right at the start…see video: Covered successfully and played … Continue reading
Grand River Sailing Club Southerly winds at 5-8 knots. Race Grand Haven to Muskegon Not much to say…Relaxed good times a few cocktails and a lot of attention to sail trim!! First in section, third in fleet….same as last year.
