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Transition to Racing (Febrary to April, 2025)
On Saturdays we are offering an opportunity for sailors to continue to develop their sailing skills with a club coach.
For Sabots it will be morning coaching, then racing. For F11s and 4.7s/70% course sailors, it will be integrated with the afternoon race.
Our aim is to build onwater confidence and boat handling skills while introducing racing skills. We will have our RIBs on the water to support sailors.
This program is free for Dec24/Jan25 Learn-to-Sail graduates, but requires a co-payment (heavily subsidised by the Club) for existing sailors in the Sabot, F11 and ILCA 4.7 fleets.
Saturday coaching program is -
9:15am Arrive at Club & rig Sabots
10:00am Briefing from Coach
10:15am Sabots on water for sail coaching
11:45pm Back onshore for lunch
12:30pm Pre-race briefing for Sabots, F11s & 4.7s (upstairs)
1:00pm Sabot race commences
2:00pm Back onshore / short wrap up and presentation
2:10pm Laser/ILCA 4.7 race start
2:40pm F11 Race starts
4-4:30 F11/ILCA 4.7 racing finishes
6pm All class presentation
We encourage parents to assist their kids as much as possible, especially getting the boats out, rigging, unrigging and putting them away. We also encourage parents to spend time on the support boats (RIBs). This is not essential however we don’t have as many instructors as we did for Learn to Sail and assisting will get the kids more time on the water.
For those sailing 2-up in the sabots it is helpful if your child has a sailing partner organized but not essential, just speeds up the process of getting on the water. We will come off the water around 11:45am. Sailors are welcome to have some lunch and then join in the afternoon racing starting from 1pm.