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Sharpen Your Racing Edge With Pre-Racing Chalk Talks

Published on 6/13/2018
Sailors,

Want to improve your sailing skills or crush your competition? Come and learn how. Sunday 6/17/18 will be the start of our new pre-racing chalk talk series. Bryant Walker will tell you how to "Find the Wind". A truly important topic for sailing on Cowan Lake!

The chalk talks will start at 11.30 so you have time to listen, learn, eat lunch and get afloat in time for Sunday racing. See below for the schedule.

See you on Sunday

Carolyn Price


Sharpen your sailing/racing skills

With Sunday Pre-Racing Chalk Talks

11.30 am at the White BoardTentative Schedule (Dates are Set, Topics may switch).

June 17                    Finding the Wind (Bryant Walker)

July 8 (Women’s Weekend)   Tactics and strategy for getting around
                                         the course. (Beginning racing)

July 8 (Learn to Sail)         Sail off your Lift and Still Like your 
                                        Spouse - for both spouses (Chris Getschow) 

July 29                            Enough rules for a Happy Day on the Race
                                        Course. (Tim Black)

Aug 12 (Race Dev. Month)   Crew U:The difference between crew who
                                        can fly the chute and crew who can win
                                        the race.

Aug 26 (Race Dev. Month)   Winning the Race from the Start: Be the
                                        first off the line and sailing into clean air
                                        (Bruce Kitchen)

Sept 9                            Upwind Sailing and Lane Management

Sept 23 (Thistle regatta)   Mark rounding

Oct 7                             Tactics and Strategy Part II. Bring your
                                        race course scenarios

Winning is not luck!