Intermediate Singlehanding
Continue your journey into singlehanded racing with more challenging maneuvers. Rabbit runs and technical racing to further develop your skills. End the week with your first overnight race against your fellow class mates.
Day 1
- Weekly goals with individual crews
- Short course sailing to identify areas to improve
- Personal management onboard a short handed boat.
Day 2
- Speed runs looking at techniques to improve speed (generic)
- Upwind and down wind
- Reaching peeling practice
- Advanced routing
Day 3
- Reaching, peeling and changes in course as part of race leg planning
- Rabbit runs looking at changes to setup and effects on performance.
- Routing coaching working with Adrena race software.
Day 4
- Boat balance in downwind and reaching using ballast and crew weight
- Triangular short course racing ranging though reaching, downwind and upwind sailing
- Night offshore : start 1600
- 18 hours offshore
- Technically difficult course with sail changes
- Working on managing working together with sleep and performance.
- Any break in the fleet and the fleet comes back together and starts again
Day 5
Late afternoon:
- Debrief of race
- Talk through decisions, issues and performance important not to over cook it.
Day 6
- Morning sailing with a focus on the areas that people struggled with.
- Inshore race series
- Debrief of week
- Race in pairs looking to test the skills learned through the week