Nacra 15 Winter Training Camp 2

Day 1

Both the British Youth Sailiing Team squad and Class group were met in the morning by their respective coaches: Theo and Jas Williams. After gaining an insight to what the weekend would hold the groups split off into squad and class and discussed the different activities we would complete; with the main focus of the weekend being around starts. 

Everyone launched at 11.45 on Saturday with the Class doing a couple of tuning runs, up and down wind whilst making our way out of the harbour avoiding any 29er and Feva racers. When out in the harbour Jas set up a pin where we had la 3 minute rolling start, trying to win first the committee then the middle of the line then the pin. With the final start being a race to the windward mark. We completed this many times before coming together with the Squad to put more boats on the line allowing more pressure. A short line was placed in to allow boat on boat situations. Many battles between teams on the line, pushing hard to get off the line first. After lots of starts we shifted our focus onto the moments after our starts, linking into racing. We had one lap races to keep racing tight and that saw all different boats leading races at points. As the day went on, the wind picked up. This made the racing really interesting. 

For the final race of the day we had aspiring Nacra 15 sailor Coral jump onto 126 with helm Matt. It was fair to say in the strong breeze we had in the final race and for the sail back in, she experienced the best part of the Nacra 15 and she came ashore beaming!