The West Coast Speedsters (W, United States of America) - 2017-06-28
Sailor 2 Second Peak (Kts)5 x 10 Second Average (Kts)1 Hour (Kts)Alpha Racing 500m (Kts)Nautical Mile (Kts)Distance Travelled (km)
Barton
27.502(D)
24.862(D)
5.568(D)
18.603(D)
14.019(D)
28.818(D)
Roo
Roo Jr.
Jay-Anthony
Marc
Aron
RD
Taty
Amado
Terence B
Juvannie
Nagel
Alexander
Terence C
Bimbi
Chen
Marc van B
Gediminas
David Brittain
Manouk
Chad
Physiorol
Average
Barton (5511km):
2464 days ago
6 categories

Langlois, OR, USA - Floras Lake

Sailworks Retro 7.5, Sailworks Retro 6.5, Goya Bolt 115, MFC KPR-42. Wind: 12G19, 14G23

Personal Training Camp Day 1. New Attitude -> minimize negative thought clutter. Renewed focus on maximizing OTW learning experiences. Today's goals: fine tune harness line placement for absolute minimum sailing effort to maximize TOW. Focus on timing of sail/footwork on laydown jibes. Sail with minimum body effort (sail with loose muscles, no need to sheet-in/try-to-go-for-it on each run) to maximize distance and TOW. 

Today was a success per my goals Laughing. Dialed in the harness lines better than they ever have been - no arm stress when sailing. Sailed with minimum body effort, especially the legs. Legs tried to cramp a couple of times but not nearly as badly as last week. While a distance of 28 km is not stellar, it is a long ways from the 5-10 km of last week. Jibing is coming along with a third best alpha time. Interesting to me is that the first and second alpha times were done on an old Hi-Tech carbon slalom board that is very easy to jibe. I feel like I'm getting the hang of jibing the 'new technology' race/freerace boards that seem to require the laydown jibe approach (at least for me).

Started on the 7.5 (gusting to about 20) which was close to my comfort limit. When the wind bumped up to gusting to 23 knots I switched to the 6.5 which worked very well. The Bolt 115 was a pleasure to sail as it dealt very nicely with the wind holes on the east side of the lake.

Nice to end the day feeling like I learned something and had increased my skill level - been a while...



Comments
Roo


W
United States of America
2464 days ago

Great effort Barton, attitude is everything. Mine sucked today, when the wind readings were 9 to 42 I didn't bother heading to the beach, knew it would be too gusty to do any runs. More wind for the rest of the week so I will man up and do some distance as pennance!  

Barton


W
United States of America
2464 days ago

Thanks Roo. It is true that attitude can color everything we do...

I saw the wind readings at the event site today - not surprised you didn't sail. That is not a 'sucked attitude', that is being smart Laughing.

My goal for tomorrow is more improvement on laydown jibes - I'm getting the timing down on starboard tack (the windy, flat,  west side of the lake)  but need to really commit to laying the sail over. Still late on port tack sail flip - chop is much worse. Once I'm nailing port tack, look out Waterfront Park Laughing.

I am almost always now using overhand grip for front hande once I'm 'locked in'. It is more comfortable for me and I think it is allowing me to get farther from the rig... I suspect this might change when I experience Gorge Chop again ...