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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 . 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...