Race To Win

Race to Win is a truly unique training course aimed at racing sailors with lots of experience, possibly already skippering.

For this 5-day course we recruit the help of industry specialists such as Team GBR Olympic Coaches  to ensure the highest possible standard of coaching.   

Guest meteorologist Libby Greenhalgh from Skandia Team GBR will run a session on weather, reading forecasts and trasnlating to the race course, helping you plan for wind-shifts, read the clouds and their local effects as well as factoring in tidal impact on your course..

Steve Lovegrove (Skandia Team GBR Coach) along with experienced offshore racing skipper and coach Chippie Gair, will run sessions on helming, communication between helm and crew, focus on acceleration out of manoeuvres and maximising boat speed. 

There will be a session on race strategy, navigation and tactics, covering both inshore and offshore race routing.

We also cover crew management - allocating your crew to roles, and showing you how to get potentially disparate crew racing together to ensure smooth manouevres and maximum boat speed.

Where possible we will use a RIB to gather off-boat video footage to maximise debrief and feedback opportunities.

If you are a regular on the racing circuit, but want to know what it takes to become a race-winning skipper, this advanced racing course is for you.

If you are not quite looking for skipper level coaching, but want to gain a better appreciation of the crew roles, how to perfect the various manoeuvres and to help maximise your boat speed, then our Race Development Course or Racing Sail Trim masterclasses might be perfect for you. Or if you already have a regular race crew, consider some own boat tuition - which for a fraction of the cost of new sail, will often yield huge dividends.

For more information, please contact our shore-support team on 023 8033 0999 or email info@sailinglogic.co.uk.

Dates: 23-27 August 2012 (Thursday - Bank Holiday Monday)

Cost: £650 per person

Experience Level: for experienced racing sailors only, perhaps already skipper or looking to make the move to skipper level imminently. 

What is included?
Mooring fees, training, professional racing skipper and first mate, guest coaches, accommodation on board (bring a sleeping bag!), food aboard yacht and loan of wet weather jacket and trousers.