Race Training Provisional
Race Coaching / Training Course for young sailors:
This course takes you through the fundamentals of getting off the start line and round the course, introducing the basic skills needed to enter your first race or have fun with friends. Leading to improved tacking and gybing, using the 5 essentials to best effect and having a basic understanding of the racing rules.
Build upon - start racing with Dinghy Club racing: Improve you racing technique and knowledge for racing at club level, building on boat handling and speed, as well as starting to build the knowledge required to develop a strategy based on the conditions.
- Helping to improve the key principles of Line bias and the first beat
- Stopping and hovering
- Roll tacks and gybes
- Adapting the rig and sail settings
Sailors should be Stage 3 and able to sail with confidence in F3-F4 breeze. Can rig their dinghy without parental help.
Open to Topper, or ILCA_Lasers. Must be willing to try other dinghies e.g. double handers: RS Feva, Vision or 2000 during the course.
Last updated 3:19pm on 20 June 2026
