April 1st Coaching/Training Session
The second session of the 505 Fleet 40 Coaching/Training program was held Saturday April 1st. We were not sure who was coming until we started getting responses on Tuesday, so backed of hiring a coach, and used fleet members instead. Thanks to Keith Davids and Chris Legg!
Four teams participated:
Bob Patterson/Candice Clough
J Bergquist/Tammy Oullette
Derek Davies/Mike Renda
Ali Meller/Mike Coe
The day started with a planning session to discuss objectives – wire running gybing and tacking – and appropriate drills. We launched about 11:00AM and sailed until after 3:00PM. After boats were put away a debrief was held. Keith and Chris shot some video, but we were an adaptor cable away from showing it on Bob’s TV/VCR. J may post some of it on the web.
Conditions were mixed, as light as 7 knots, and we don’t really know what the highest puffs were. We planed out to the sailing area, had breeze up conditions for a while, before it lightened up to about seven knots. It went lighter for a short period and then filled in, and filled in, and filled in some more. Someone claimed the Naval Academy saw a 40 knot puff funneling through the Severn; we saw puffs over 25 sailing back.
We ended up going round a short upwind/downwind course, with occasional gate starts for variety. Derek/Mike were making Cardiac Arrest go well upwind; downwind was a problem as the extended 2001 chicken kite tore down the luff tapes and wasn’t usable (and is currently residing in the dumpster). However the course was so short that a hoist, very quick ride to the gybe, gybe, quick ride to the leeward mark, douse, was not actually that much faster than two sailing the run.
Today was Tammy’s first time in a dinghy in a few years; we’ve established that a 505 is not exactly like a J22 ;-)
Before sailing back we had several great downwind rides, with Ali/Mike working out the kinks in the separate sheet-and-guy system and landing two nice gybes in breeze up conditions, before sailing back with the rig raked all the way back, the ram all the way down, flattening reef on, jib leads aft, barber hauler on, etc.
Good fun!
At the debrief we followed up on some points that had been made on the water. Rake more upright for lighter air to get point, pre-bend when it gets even lighter, sit forward in the boat in light air, the importance of keeping the boat flat upwind in breeze and much more.
This weekend is when we move our clocks forward an hour, so we have daylight in the evening. Mike and I will be out Thursday evening, along with anyone else interested, and we schedule coaching/training for Thursday evening each week. We believe we have a coach with 505 experience lined up for some of these Thursday evenings.
Mike Coe cannot sail the weekend of the 8th and 9th, but I am happy to work with others who can sail. And of course the first regatta is at SSA the 15th and 16th of April, and we will work for coaching support for that event as well.
Four teams participated:
Bob Patterson/Candice Clough
J Bergquist/Tammy Oullette
Derek Davies/Mike Renda
Ali Meller/Mike Coe
The day started with a planning session to discuss objectives – wire running gybing and tacking – and appropriate drills. We launched about 11:00AM and sailed until after 3:00PM. After boats were put away a debrief was held. Keith and Chris shot some video, but we were an adaptor cable away from showing it on Bob’s TV/VCR. J may post some of it on the web.
Conditions were mixed, as light as 7 knots, and we don’t really know what the highest puffs were. We planed out to the sailing area, had breeze up conditions for a while, before it lightened up to about seven knots. It went lighter for a short period and then filled in, and filled in, and filled in some more. Someone claimed the Naval Academy saw a 40 knot puff funneling through the Severn; we saw puffs over 25 sailing back.
We ended up going round a short upwind/downwind course, with occasional gate starts for variety. Derek/Mike were making Cardiac Arrest go well upwind; downwind was a problem as the extended 2001 chicken kite tore down the luff tapes and wasn’t usable (and is currently residing in the dumpster). However the course was so short that a hoist, very quick ride to the gybe, gybe, quick ride to the leeward mark, douse, was not actually that much faster than two sailing the run.
Today was Tammy’s first time in a dinghy in a few years; we’ve established that a 505 is not exactly like a J22 ;-)
Before sailing back we had several great downwind rides, with Ali/Mike working out the kinks in the separate sheet-and-guy system and landing two nice gybes in breeze up conditions, before sailing back with the rig raked all the way back, the ram all the way down, flattening reef on, jib leads aft, barber hauler on, etc.
Good fun!
At the debrief we followed up on some points that had been made on the water. Rake more upright for lighter air to get point, pre-bend when it gets even lighter, sit forward in the boat in light air, the importance of keeping the boat flat upwind in breeze and much more.
This weekend is when we move our clocks forward an hour, so we have daylight in the evening. Mike and I will be out Thursday evening, along with anyone else interested, and we schedule coaching/training for Thursday evening each week. We believe we have a coach with 505 experience lined up for some of these Thursday evenings.
Mike Coe cannot sail the weekend of the 8th and 9th, but I am happy to work with others who can sail. And of course the first regatta is at SSA the 15th and 16th of April, and we will work for coaching support for that event as well.
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