A plan built around your goal
Define the result, work backward from target events, and make clear choices about training, travel, equipment, and support.
Coaching and campaign consulting
Build a sailing campaign that can actually perform
Work with Willie McBride to design the campaign, training system, and race-day process behind your goals. From a focused strategy engagement to ongoing coaching, every package is built to turn ambition into an executable plan.
Book a campaign consultationFormer US Sailing Team Olympic coach · Remote and on-site consulting
The right work at the right time
Turn the calendar into purposeful training blocks with measurable priorities instead of disconnected sailing days.
A campaign that learns
Use structured debriefs, video, GPS data, and performance reviews to make better decisions throughout the season.
Ways to work together
Choose the coaching relationship your campaign needs
Strategy engagement
Campaign Blueprint
A concentrated consulting package for sailors and teams who need a serious plan before committing more time and money.
- Goal, constraint, and current-state review
- Event calendar and campaign architecture
- Training blocks and performance priorities
- Budget, logistics, equipment, and support map
- Written campaign roadmap and review call
Ongoing consulting
Campaign Partnership
A continuing advisory relationship that keeps the campaign focused as results, schedules, conditions, and priorities change.
- Regular campaign and performance reviews
- Training-plan adjustments
- Coach and specialist coordination
- Regatta preparation and post-event analysis
- Accountability on the decisions that matter
On the water
Performance Coaching
Focused coaching for individuals, teams, clinics, and regattas, designed around the highest-value performance constraint.
- Boat handling and technique
- Starts, tactics, and race execution
- Practice design and training partners
- Video, GPS, and structured debriefs
- Remote review or on-site coaching
A fast boat is not the same as a strong campaign
Most campaigns do not fail because the sailors lack ambition. They fail because the calendar, training priorities, resources, and feedback system never become one coherent plan. Campaign consulting creates that operating system: what matters now, what can wait, how progress will be measured, and how the team will respond when the original plan meets reality.
What coaching can focus on
- Boat handling, technique, and repeatable maneuvers
- Starting strategy, fleet positioning, and tactical decision making
- Practice design, training partners, and performance priorities
- Regatta preparation, between-race adjustments, and post-event review
- Campaign planning, athlete development, and coach-to-sailor communication
Built from high-performance and Olympic-pathway experience
Willie McBride is a former US Sailing Team Olympic coach whose work spans high-performance athletes, youth development, skiff sailing, tactical education, campaign management, and performance technology. The objective is not to imitate an Olympic campaign. It is to apply the same clarity—priorities, deliberate practice, evidence, and accountability—at the scale that fits your goal.