Wow! What a great week: excellent conditions and a new team improving throughout regatta. The J/105 "Creative Destruction" began with two days of coaching with Dave Ullman then 5 days of racing in a very competitive fleet. Goal for regatta was to finish mid fleet and the team delivered. As a one design class, crew coordination and tactics are paramount. Biggest learning is the need to choregraph boat handling as much as possible and to perform these "dance steps" (mark roundings, takedowns, gybes, tacks) as a team as absolutely efficiently as possible to maximize speed around the course - every boat length counts! In addition, it's no secret that a superb tactician is a pre-requisiite for fleet racing at this level but another key learning is the leadership quality of the tactitian is incredibly important to success. All in all a great week of learnings (some of which will be captured later in the blog), warm weather, fine food and drink and new friends made for an excellent experience yet again in Key West.
Results here:
http://www.premiere-racing.com/KW10_Results/kw10_div2_series.htm
Pics here:
http://www.photoboatgallery.com/lightbox/index/category/gallery2010%20Key%20West%20Race%20WeekCreative%20Destruction/start/0/Creative-Destruction.html
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