The poster with dates of the Southern Traveller Series 2010 is now available.
It was great to see the other squaddies at our third training weekend which was at Hayling Island. Unfortunately we didn't’t manage to get out on
Saturday morning, but we met up with the national squad and learnt lots
about tactics and strategy, we had lunch and enjoyed an afternoon on the
water, learning about boat handling and starting. On Sunday morning we did
more training on starting and boat handling on the water and in the
afternoon we had a race against the NJS ,we all really enjoyed it and did
really well. I can’t wait until next time which will be at Weymouth.
Scarlett Shepherd
We have been having a clear out of our chandelry stock at rutland watersports and have found some mirror specific parts that we want to get rid of. we have no use or reason to have them anymore so would like them to go somewhere where they will be use full.
| We started the second National Junior squad weekend at Rutland Sailing Club (one of the few up north) with a rushed rig. We were all eager to get on the water after the last weekend at Weymouth. We all changed quickly and headed up to the briefing room to be greeted by Matt McGovern and his full time sailing brother; Johnny who told us that we still wouldn't be finding out who our new coach was till the next weekend. We were focusing on boat handling and starting over the weekend. It was about 13 knots so we started with an around the clock exercise followed by trigger starts, numbered starts, follow my leader, river bank and floating buoy races with a short brake around half way through for lunch. After a very tiring day on the water we de-rigged and changed for a debriefing with Johnny and very useful video feedback. Then we all off to the canteen for a well earned supper and then off to the pub for chips. . . |  |
| The weather forecast for the Saturday was for rain in the morning with 25 knots of wind, reducing as the day went by and for light winds on Sunday with a pleasant temperature of 10 degrees centigrade. The weather forecast for once was spot on. David Woodhead became the head coach for the weekend in the absence of Catherine. Dave decided in view of the wet weather that the sailors did not have to rig their boats until the rain had stopped, which was in perfect time for lunch... |  |
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