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One of my biggest problems, in the past, has been having a bad first day and then being mentally out of the series after that. Someone said âYou canât win the regatta on the first day, but you can certainly can lose itâ With this in mind, I set a goal of being in good shape (striking range of the leaders) while not taking too many chances.
Well, we certainly had some interesting conditions this past weekend! While we had mostly light air, we also had two races with some of the best surfing conditions in years! As usual, there were several lessons to be learned. Here are some of my thoughts on dealing with the varying conditions.
I was going to write about all the tactical implications involved with sailing in a randomly shifting breeze, like we had on Sunday, but then realized I would be simply quoting Stuart Walker. I am a big fan of Walker, and if you read his articles about sailing in Category 3 conditions, you would see how useful his ideas are in these conditions.
