Announcing the
North U Match Racing Clinic
prior to the 2018 World Sailing Blind Match Racing World Championship
Clinic dates: 28-30 August 2018
Location: Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club, Rhu, Scotland
Coach: Liz Baylis, former Women’s Match Racing World Champion, current chair World Sailing Match Racing Sub-Committee, Executive Director – Women’s Match Racing Association
Supported by: NorthU
Clinic content: The clinic will be a combination of lectures, on land exercises and on the water drills covering a range of topics geared towards improving match racing skills for beginning and advanced match racers including boatspeed, boathandling, match race starting fundamentals and tactics, upwind and downwind tactics, and rules.
Cost: £150 / team for 3 days
For more information on logistics about the Clinic or to sign up, contact:
Name: Craig Macdonald
email: blindmrworlds2018@rncyc.com
If you have any questions / issues / etc. about the content of the clinic, please do not hesitate to email Liz Baylis at ExecDir@wimra.org
Prior to the clinic: All sailors who want to learn more about match racing should study the free DVD Dave Perry (5-time US Match Racing Champion and world-class match racing coach) put together called Welcome to Match Racing. One can listen to the audio and learn a tremendous amount about how match racing works. He goes through the tactics of the Prestart, the Upwind and Downwind legs, and how the Penalty System works. It is located, for free, on the bottom of the US Sailing Match Racing page at: http://www.ussailing.org/racing/small-boat-racing/match/