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Date: July 31, 2021 - December 18, 2021
Event: 2021 J24 Fleet 163 Racing School
Event Notice Board
We are planning on going around bouys at 10am Saturday then racing school starts at 2pm. We will do the same helping the new people train around the bouys at 2pm, then a race at 530pm. Email replying back if you are coming so we can get a head count. We will not be having racing school on November 13th or the 27th. For November we will do racing school on November 6th and the 20th only. Look forward to seeing you out there!
Posted By: James Freedman
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I wanted to send a reminder that the next J24 racing school event will be on 11/6 at 2PM. See you in a week and a half!
Posted By: James Freedman
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We will be moving the Saturday racing school to 2:00PM on Saturdays since we have been night sailing by 6:30PM now. Here is a list of the remaining sessions for this year. 1. 23 Oct 2021, 2:00 PM - 8:00 2. 06 Nov 2021, 2:00 PM - 8:00PM 3. 20 Nov 2021, 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM 4. 27 Nov 2021, 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM 5. 04 Dec 2021, 2:00 PM - 8:00PM 6. 11 Dec 2021, 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM 7. 18 Dec 2021, 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
Posted By: James Freedman
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Here is the DCYC discord link, previous link was expired. You can find rides here for Thursday night racing and other nights currently Mondays where we go sailing and practice. https://discord.gg/jRkxhady
Posted By: James Freedman
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Next class will be October 23, 2021. Join the discord, come sail on Mondays or Thursdays. Make sure to get on a boat for Terlingua regatta and come volunteer at the Pirates junior regatta. I am certain we will be moving our times earlier in the day as the evenings become shorter and the weather becomes cooler. I will let everyone know. In our last class we setup the boat on the dock and we all practiced gybing the pole on the foredeck. We also practiced sets and douses with the spinnaker as well. Everyone got a chance to play on the new Clifford boat. Looking forward to getting on the water and us setting up some bouys we can sail around next class and rotate the crew into different positions as we sail around performing tacks, sets, gybes, douses, and mark roundings.
Posted By: James Freedman
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Graphic showing how to see if you are faster or slower than another boat.
Posted By: James Freedman
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Updated Schedule: A lot of us are racing out of town or at the club some of the future Saturdays. September 18th HOOD Regatta in Houston, October 2nd JFest Southwest in Houston, October 9th Pirates Youth Regatta at DCYC (Come volunteer to help run races), October 16th Terlingua Fleet 163 J24 Club Championship (Come race on a J24 this weekend), October 30th Heritage Cup in Houston, November 13th Wurstfest Regatta in Canyon Lake. If these dates change I will update with another notice through email and posted on the Sailing Scores notice board for this event.
Posted By: James Freedman
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September 4th 2021 class: We had 10 participants and we went over how to rig the J24, followed by the procedures of tacking the genoa. We then went out on 2 boats and everyone practiced tacking the genoa out on the water. We also went upwind and paced the two boats against each other. We spoke about how to see if a boat next to you is faster or slower by looking at the forestay and whether the trees were moving in or out of the forestay of the boat you are speeding with. We went over looking at the water and seeing the puffs and lulls and what wind puffs look like on the water. We also talked about trimming the genoa on a reach and how to read the tell tales. Ease if the outside tell tails move around and trim if the inside tell tails until they are both flying straight back.
Posted By: James Freedman
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August 28th 2021 class: We had 18 participants and we went over how to rig the J24, followed by the procedures of executing each position. We then went out on 3 boats and everyone practiced the steps out on the water.
Posted By: James Freedman
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