Boat Handling

The playlist of videos from the weekend can be found above. Gybes were interesting because you’re losing so much apparent wind through the turn that you come out without enough pressure to both hit at the same time. Need to either be patient, or else let the boat load and then hit hard to provide a kinetic move to get the boat back up to speed right away. In some of the gybes, you would surf down a wave in the entry and in these it was important to realize that pressure was about to go away, and would stop supporting Jordan’s weight. Gybes got much cleaner once you guys started accounting for this organic wave piece.

Tacks looked very good. When you fall over in this stuff, the key is to stay collected (tight core) and keep moving through the boat. This part improved quite a bit. The faster you are through the boat, the more you can come out with main tighter on your final angle.

In the downspeed boat handling, we discussed several types of double tacks - in particular, the aggressive snap versus the slow roll. The scenario drill that we did was working on a “triple tack” to get the leeward boat stalled with the initial double tack, and then tack away to open up a 2 boat length hole. We will continue working on this.

Speed

As far as the speed work, one thing you guys played with on this day was board up. I’d be curious to see notes on Racing Alpha about how the board up felt different than winding on the rig. Is it better when you have to drive more?

I would also love to see notes on the asymmetries in technique from tack to tack and/or gybe to gybe.