- Skippers - get the main in tight before the tacks
- Crews - keep your feet together at all times; the only time you straddle the centerboard trunk is when sailing wing-on-wing
- Skippers - drive with your main and not your tiller. You have to make sure to have an over-hand grip on the mainsheet (Will, this is you) so that you can easily ease and trim
- TIMING - especially on the tacks, skippers do not roll until the crews roll
- Wing-to-Wing Jibes - Remember, especially with our boats at school, crews always have a jib sheet in each hand and do NOT let go
- Board down
- Feet back
- Reverse the Tiller
- Crews take the jib sheet from the skipper's hand, grab the vang, and SIT
- Skippers reach up and grab all 4 parts of the main sheet
- Pull the main over and do NOT let go
- Skippers flatten and pump
- Skippers exchange and reach for the jib
- Crews, as soon as the boat is flat, stand straight up in the middle of the boat, put your weight on your windward foot, and wing the jib by pulling straight up through the lead
- Board up
- Re-set the vang
- With reach to reach jibes, crews keep their feet together
- Skippers flatten the jibes and stay forward
- To find the lay-line to the boat, try ducking the boat and then sailing on a close-hauled course. You know that you are on the lay-line when you just barely clear the stern corner of the boat when sailing up-wind
- When sailing up-wind, make sure that you are always "pointing at the weather mark." Crews, it is your job to make sure that you are sailing the lifted tack.
- To slow your boat down-wind, put the board down, slide your weight back, over-trim your main, and center the jib
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Notes from Yesterday (3/31)
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When sailing wing-on-wing, even when it's light, you want to keep one foot on each side of the centerboard trunk. Remember, the crew drives the boat downwind. You want to have your weight distributed so that you can steer. In light air, it is more important to stay low in the boat, not on one side.
isa, in light/medium air when the crew is shifting weight, crews should certainly keep a foot on both sides of the trunk. But that is not so you can have a comfy seat. Stay standing on the balls of you feet and moving weight to keep the boat flat.
Another time the feet can come apart is when flattening out of a tack. One foot under the strap and bring the other knee up and farther out to help flatten the boat. I have heard Beth has some new tacking method so maybe that doesn’t apply anymore.
Garth,
Tacking method is pretty much the same, with one exception: the crew has to hit the strap on their back foot instead of the front. This lets them flatten back with the skipper instead of being counter-productive.
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