<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>All:</div><div><br></div><div>While we were unfortunately not able to get zoom going for our Thursday night session, we had great attendance. Bernt brought pizza and I brought a couple of different brews, and we had a great discussion about how the Mallory Cup went and then discussed a new interest in reviving team racing at Sonar fleet #5.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are some of the take aways I picked up from our discussion of the Mallory Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Regatta is extremely well run.</div><div>2. The ORC is US Sailing trained and is very picky about getting starts right and wind shift/condition change situations. A little as 10 degree shifts would cause postponements.</div><div>3. The top teams tended to win races right at the start....with momentum</div><div>4. The top teams really weren't faster on the drag race, but executed their maneuvers just a bit more accurately and tended to tactically not get stuck on the corners.</div><div><br></div><div>The other comment, is that the Kemah Sonar fleet (Corinthian YC) has a strong team racing program, as they have had for many years.</div><div><br></div><div>The rest of our discussion was about reviving team racing.</div><div><br></div><div>As some of us know, its takes a significant amount of momentum to get a team racing effort off the ground but we decided that these three things would be important in generating the interest to the level that it would thrive here as we did about ten years ago (has it been that long!?)</div><div><br></div><div>1. Local training sessions with real coaches. We discussed where those could from and how that could work. (we have good coaches within a stones throw)</div><div><br></div><div>2. A revived local team racing regatta event that would be the goal of the local training sessions. Discussions will continue.</div><div><br></div><div>3. A 'road trip' team race, which was always a highlight for me anyways. We have regionally close Sonar fleets that could be a venue for this. Discussions will continue.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>Thomas Brown</div>
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