[Sonar] Thoughts on team racing

[J.R. (MyReal)]

I like the idea of a annual "swim team" trophy.... I think one almost a
whole boat would have had it awarded to them.




On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:10 AM, <sonar-bounces at lists.wyc.org> wrote:

>  I think its time for a Sonar party,  perhaps a free evening before
> the Star of North when our Gimley (Lake Winnipeg) friends are back down here
> in a couple of weeks to share the many pictures, stories and libations.
> Any thoughts or venue volunteers?
>
>
>
> I'd also like to throw the idea out of  creating our own Sonar fleet annual
> 'swim team' trophy, of which Mark Kochendorfer so spectacularly wins for
> this year.    I would have won it three years ago at Lake Geneva with my
> inventive 'roll the mainsail up,  then jump off the boat backwards in the
> lake'  move.   No doubt we'll have more swimming competition winners in the
> future.
>
> "Maximizing Business by Minimizing Surprises"
> Thomas Brown
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ernest Brody" <epbrody at earthlink.net>
> To: sonar at lists.wyc.org
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:23:29 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [Sonar] Thoughts on team racing
>
>    The team racing clinic and regatta was a pretty exciting event.  I
> think in the last race Mark had the most excitement, followed by Marty and
> Kathy.  It will be a story (I’ll let them tell it) to be recounted over and
> over at beer after races.  I  think we will never tire of telling what
> happened to each of us.
>
>
>
> The Canadians are stoked.  They are more excited than when we introduced
> them to the Sonar at LOWISA.  They’re coming to Star of the North with some
> new prospects.
>
>
>
> Team racing has caught on within our fleet and it may spread to the rest of
> the YC.  For our fleet we need to take some steps to make it more effective.
>
> ·         We need to collect some old but still useable sails.  We need at
> least six jibs.  We can then put a colored stripe on three of them so you
> can tell who is where at a glance.  It would be (liberals, please forgive
> me) a team of whites and a team of coloreds.   If we can also collect six
> mains, so much the better.  In any case, we shouldn’t be beating up our good
> (or even not-so-good) sails.
>
> ·         We need more organized instruction.  Blake is one of the two
> best team race instructor/coaches in our area (the other is Cappy).  But
> Blake is limited by time and endurance.  We should approach the Sailing
> Center to develop an adult team racing program.  We should be paying a fee
> to the Sailing Center for some instructor/coach to give us classroom
> sessions, drills, races, and debrief.  These sessions would have a schedule
> and commitment.  Our skills with boat handling and racing will bring us
> along the curve pretty quickly.
>
> ·         We could also develop some judging/umpiring corps over time.
>
> ·         We need to mix knowledgeable and newbie people so we bring
> people up to speed quickly.
>
>
>
> Thank you Marty for spearheading the initial organization.  Thank you John,
> JR, Becca, and Mark for supporting his effort.
>
>
>
> Our objective should be to have two full teams to go to Sheboygan in 2010.
> This is going to grow itself from the excitement..
>
>
>
> Ernest
>
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