Back to sailing this week as we wrap up our California training (Jesse drives the boat to Miami next week). Monday and Tuesday were light and was great practice for our light air mechanics, something we did not practice much up in NorCAL. Yesterday we were greeted with a pleasant 8-12kt (just enough to get the boat powered up at times) Westerly off Long Beach and we were fortunate to have friend and top coach Payson Infelise to film the practice. The video below shows a bit of everything from the practice (tacks, gybes, straight lining, one acceleration drill, a couple of bear-aways and one extended clip of running downwind). Thanks to Payson for his time and his skill of being able to drive a coachboat and film our camera!
Our training in California this fall has been great and we are feeling more in tune with the rig and boat. It is amazing what an extended time of training will do for your 'feel'- on tuesday we did our best light air gybe on record and yesterday we did our fastest double trapping tack to date! You do a maneuver enough times that you can really start to break it down and figure out the best way to pull it off. Of course we still have lots of training to do before we will be ready for Miami OCR, but it has been a good start to our full-time training regime. We look forward to training in Miami, in December, with North America's best in the warm waters of Biscayne Bay!
-Zander
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you guys have worked so hard! and it really shows. you're looking strong.
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