[Sonar] Thurs. 7/2, Who's up for TEAM RACING PRACTICE/DRILLS?

[martyfossen at yahoo.com]

Hey,

Since there's no fleet races that night, who wants to work on this team racing stuff with me that evening?   Of course, six boats make an actual team race, but with anywhere from 1 to 5 boats, we can still work for various drills that would allow us to work on the team racing moves.

5:30 leave the dock.  The practice area will be just a few hundred yards into the bay.  
We'd borrow 3 to 5 buoys. If starts were in the mix, somebody on one of our boats will blow the 3-minute whistle sequence.

Please let me know 
  who of you is in for this, 
  who of you will bring a boat, 
  and who you'll bring with you.

If weather/wind doesn't cooperate, we could still do some kind of seminar.

The drills include:
1 boat:  boat handling related to team racing, such as 
    full-speed roll
 tacks and roll jibes
    down-speed roll tacks and roll jibes
    parking for a long time, then accelerating.
    mark-rounding nuances
    360s, 720s

2 boats: 
   mark traps
   ducks, lee bows, slam-dunks, and related offense and defense
   match-racing-like starts, i.e. dial-up, circling, and other tactical maneuvers to gain    
                                             advantage at the start

3 boats:
   "piggy in the middle" which is where you pretend the middle boat is on the opposing 
    team and the front boat tries to block and/or slow that middle boat to pull his third place 
    team mate up.  As soon as the positions change, the drill
 continues with the new   
    middle boat as the "piggy in the middle".  This drill can happen in open water or can 
    include marks which then allows mark trap practice as well as the open water 
    pass-backs.

4 boats:
   The winner of a 2 on 2 team race is the team that does NOT have the boat in last place.
   i.e.  1-4 loses to 2-3 even though the total points are the same.

5 boats:  
    There's an imaginary 5th place boat.  I need to get clarification on the mechanics of this 
    scheme from Blake, but it allows work on team racing tactics and 
    maneuvers.

6 boats:
   Obviously an actual team race is an option, but perhaps we'd start with two 3-boat "piggy 
   in the middle" drills to warm up since that drill is especially fruitful
 in learning the moves.

More than 6 boats?   Could it happen?  If so, we'll figure something out.

Thanks,
MF



      
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