Sailboat Racing Tips: Listen and Learn

[@chazparvez4970]

Having sailed on a few 'shouty' boats, this is beautiful.

[@Tom428854]

😊😊😮😮

[@Vzw-dj9rf]

Neat to watch and both hear and see what's being looked at tactically as well as on the boat itself. The details are important, and this crew is working to get those right - sail trim, weight distribution, tracking competition - but not to the point of forgetting where the next mark is. Using the crew weight to help power the boat through a tack was something I'd not seen. Very cool.

[@martygingras8683]

That was great. More of this type of thing please.

[@joshmcintyre8]

Love this video! Audio of you all talking through it and the footage is perfect. Please make more like this. (First of your videos I've seen yet)

[@sailingworld]

Thank you for watching. The plan is for more! Let me know who you’d love to listen in on and which classes or types of racing (one design, handicap etc)

[@jonwilly2]

Well done camera crew and boat crew.

[@tomlogan2102]

This is a joy to behold.

[@paulkircher9542]

In flat water keep a calm tiller downwind. Think of the tiller as a brake. The slower/ smoother on the tiller, the less brake you apply.

[@PaulHarris-sl1ct]

I sailed in a one design fleet a few years. We won just about every race Kicked some butts at the nationals and we talked about just about everything except sailing the boat.. our team was so good

[@yankeeshogun]

Man, am I jealous of the warm weather!

[@Marcop12]

Good communication indeed. However, I do not hear a communication between the spinnaker trimer and the helmswoman when going downwind.

[@aworldtorelax6607]

Sweet start!

[@Yeaitstemp]

I'm a single hander with many miles got invited to do a big race on a racing boat over watching videos got me nervous lol

[@stueaston1043]

Great little vid 🙂👍

[@sailingworld]

Thanks 👍

[@niklasd2014]

Good communication, but why did you take the jib out at 7min just to furl it back in 15s after?

[@martygingras8683]

To sail high and perhaps a bit slow w/o flogging the jib. When they first did it earlier, she said "Killing high."

[@sailingworld]

Niklas--use of the jib in the pre-start is a powerful tool being used in the J/70 class especially. Furl in/out depending on speed and maneuverability desired. Next-level stuff for these pros!

[@niklasd2014]

@@sailingworld Thats correct, but there is no pre Start here. They are going downwind in realy light air an the jib is out for only 15s. Makes no sense for me.

[@niklasd2014]

@@martygingras8683 If you watch the tiller movement she is turning the boat a little bit downwind. Not high at all.

[@martygingras8683]

@@niklasd2014 Sorry, I didn't notice your first post called out the maneuver at 7 minutes. Good excuse for me to watch the video again. At about 7:15, they were paying attention to the boat behind, called a puff, set the jib, noted the wind going forward, and talked about going into VMG mode. Seems they briefly deployed the jib to move forward on the boat behind rather than turn down in the knock.

[@wykpenguin]

Are the kite sheets intentionally inside the lifelines?

[@TheCoolhead27]

Good question.

[@nathanbenton2051]

very cool. why did they douse the jib at 3:05?

[@breckenridgeexpert]

Slowing the boat to get a good start I think.

[@therolltacker]

Some of the unspoken and repeated glasses of "chardonnay" on the downwind leg would have received my "red napkin" as they were not linked to shifts, wind increases or steering, but rather skilled dinghy sailors who will take advantage of subtle pumping when no one is looking....except its on camera. "Up 1" - pumps 3 times......yeah, no.

[@sukhoiboy4140]

whats emg mean?

[@martygingras8683]

She said 'VMG'. That's "Velocity Made Good".

[@ahmeteker5297]

No one is this nice in a j70 crew (or any racig crew) where is all the swearing

[@garythornhill7061]

I'm absolutely confused at watching this video, I don't hear any instruction or teaching being offered. According to the title, I was hoping to hear some teaching, where somebody was saying this is why we're doing this or that because we want this effect or that effect.

[@Tracer-yc4wq]

Listen to how they all communicate. There’s no idle chatter going on it’s all about the boat speed, puffs, competitors, and next mark. Their roll tacks are all well coordinated and there’s one person calling the time to “squash.” I also heard a code word (Chardonnay) just below the start line to put some heel on the boat. I’d say the key lesson here is teamwork and constant communication.

[@martygingras8683]

Watch it a few times. It's one of the best learning opportunities on the web.

[@heimbatman4516]

These are pros/serious competitors, not beer can racing with brand new folks every week - but everything they're doing can apply, as long as your crew doesn't mind an evening of listening to what sounds like Elizabeth Holmes directing flight ops on the Nimitz...