The second feva class training weekend saw sixteen sailors signed up with travelling sailors from Wormit SC in Fife joining a team of sailors from the home club and local area. Focus for the weekend was on starting and consolidating the spinnaker handling work started at the first weekend. With a favourable forecast for the weekend sailors were quickly onto the water to look at starting skills. After warming up around a windward-leeward course sailors then focused on accelerating/decelerating skills in a long follow the alien exercise across the full width of the loch. Alvie jumped from coach boat to feva and then across the rest of the fevas as all boats took turns at leading the line. (See if you can spot Alvie in the photo gallery.) Final part of the morning was spent on unopposed starts with some getting a bit of a reminder that fevas get up to speed a bit slower than the optimists some of the sailors were more used to.
An bit more breeze in the afternoon gave sailors the chance to put into practice some of the boat handling skills they had been working on in the morning across a series of short sharp starts. Then following in the wake of Columbus all boats headed west in search of the new world with the long downwind run giving the perfect opportunity for crews to focus on kite trim on long gybes down the loch. After a short pause to enjoy the energy giving properties of haribo the long journey back upwind began with sailors arriving back at the shore feeling that they may well have sailed the fevas the whole way across the Atlantic back from America.
Sunday dawned with more wind than forecast so sailors made the very best of the conditions looking at line bias and transits both ashore and on the water. Attempting to start on a very long line using a transit the camera never lies and some of the photos showed that the boats where not as on the line as their crews might have though. Making sure that they had looked at all of the boat handling elements some carefully staged synchronised capsizing peppered the sail back ashore as the fevas weaved around the three other groups of sailors also using the club on the Sunday. After a quick lunch stop the boats returned to the water for a series of short windward-leeward races which saw plenty of tight battles right the way across the fleet. A very competitive game of boat basketball finished off the weekend with Team Wormit taking on all comers in an epic battle which saw Wormit narrowly winning with a final score into the rib to take the deciding point and win 3 - 2.
Thanks to Port Edgar Watersports for supplying two extra boats for sailors at the weekend and to Loch Venachar SC for their support in setting up the weekends assistance from their members to allow the coaching sessions to run smoothly.
http://portedgarwatersports.com/
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An bit more breeze in the afternoon gave sailors the chance to put into practice some of the boat handling skills they had been working on in the morning across a series of short sharp starts. Then following in the wake of Columbus all boats headed west in search of the new world with the long downwind run giving the perfect opportunity for crews to focus on kite trim on long gybes down the loch. After a short pause to enjoy the energy giving properties of haribo the long journey back upwind began with sailors arriving back at the shore feeling that they may well have sailed the fevas the whole way across the Atlantic back from America.
Sunday dawned with more wind than forecast so sailors made the very best of the conditions looking at line bias and transits both ashore and on the water. Attempting to start on a very long line using a transit the camera never lies and some of the photos showed that the boats where not as on the line as their crews might have though. Making sure that they had looked at all of the boat handling elements some carefully staged synchronised capsizing peppered the sail back ashore as the fevas weaved around the three other groups of sailors also using the club on the Sunday. After a quick lunch stop the boats returned to the water for a series of short windward-leeward races which saw plenty of tight battles right the way across the fleet. A very competitive game of boat basketball finished off the weekend with Team Wormit taking on all comers in an epic battle which saw Wormit narrowly winning with a final score into the rib to take the deciding point and win 3 - 2.
Thanks to Port Edgar Watersports for supplying two extra boats for sailors at the weekend and to Loch Venachar SC for their support in setting up the weekends assistance from their members to allow the coaching sessions to run smoothly.
http://portedgarwatersports.com/
http://loch-venachar-sc.org.uk/wp/