[Sonar] Thanks to team racer practice participants

[tbrown9163 at comcast.net]

It was my first time on the tiller for a team event.    A big change in I/O from being crew.  Humbling indeed, especially in the breeze that we were in with little time to decide and no forgiveness for mistakes.   



I've got the DVD,  which is very good but is information overload.   Here are a few of the highlights that I see boiled down to a level that I can understand at my elemental level: (perhaps they are helpful to the group) 



  - If you're first,  stay first and only cover close enough to not risk losing it 



 - If you're last,   your job is to get out of being last place 



 - If you're in the middle,  and your teammate is last,  do what you can to get him/her out of last place. 



The DVD goes into things like balancing and weaving,   far too advanced for what I could process at this point. 



I know this is overly simplistic,  but its something that I get at my level.       Blake,  do you confirm these simple guidelines? 



I'll bring the DVD back to the club to hand off on Saturday and will not be present for the Thursday race. 

"Maximizing Business by Minimizing Surprises" 
Thomas Brown 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Sligh" <jsligh at earthlink.net> 
To: "Martin Fossen" <martyfossen at yahoo.com>, sonar at lists.wyc.org 
Cc: "Blake Middleton" <MYC at aol.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:44:29 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: Re: [Sonar] Thanks to team racer practice participants 


Marty, 

Thanks for taking the lead on this practice sessions.  It's going to make a big difference for us at the Sheboygan event. 

John 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Martin Fossen 
To: sonar at lists.wyc.org 
Cc: Blake Middleton 
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:53 AM 
Subject: [Sonar] Thanks to team racer practice participants 



We were able to achieve our goal of a six-boat team race practice in very nice breeze.  Thanks in particular to those who came out who hadn't been out with us before and/or to those who came out but aren't going to the Sheboygan event. 

This last weekend the Hinman Masters team racing event was held at New York Yacht Club's Harbour Court in Newport, Rhode Island (in Sonars, with spinnakers).   Shall we enter a WYC team next year? 

MF 



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