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RYA Logbook Advanced skills Advanced racing
Developing skills in preparation for open meetings and higher level competition. This is a predominately practical course.
Mental preparation
Has knowledge of process and outcome goals
Physical preparation
Understands the importance of hydration and nutrition - pre, during and post race
Understands the effects of sleep deprivation
Boat preparation
Understands how to improve foil finishe, optimise boat to class rules, using tuning guide.
Understands how to check trailers - wheel bearings, legaility and safety prior to travelling.
Boat handling
Understands the iportance of teamwork and coordination, how to race train by oneself
Understands principles of steering with sails and balance and demonstrate these principles in taking penalty turns.
Boat speed
Understands relevance of sail controls amd effect on the sails.
Understands how to change 'gears' in different conditions while on the water.
Understands how to vary the tuning guide for different conditions and how to create own tuning guide and post race analysis sheet |
Teamwork
Understands effective race analysis and race and training goals
Can communicate effectively and can react to changing conditions.
Strategy and meteorology
Can create a race strategy prior to going afloat based on weather forecat, tide tables etc.
Racing rules
Have a goog knowledge of the racing rules. Sail by racing rules
Tactics
Has knowledge of holding a lane upwind, boat on fleet tactics, attacking and controling situations.
Understand boat on group tactics, overtaking and defending tactics, covering, different approaches to make and when to gybe or bear away.
Starts
Understands pre start rules
Can protect a gap to leeward, hold a boat on line (hovering), use transits
Has knowledge of various starting sequences, recall signal and starting penalties
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