How much experience do I need to race? Q+A Live⛵️Your Catamaran Sailing Questions Answered
Yes hello that’s right it’s Joe here live for Joy Rider TV back with some very interesting Q and A and today we’re going in with what could be quite a Hot Topic which is am I ready to hit
The race course yeah it’s a big topic um because a lot of you guys watching perhaps you’ve never raced before you’ve done a fair bit of cat sailing but never actually hit the race course
So um to know if you’re ready to hit the race course that’s quite a big deal because I know if you haven’t done it before it can be quite an intimidating Prospect um to get out there
And mix it up with other boats so um I’ve I’ve written some notes actually on a bit of paper um and um it’s difficult to know where to start in the whole thing but what um we could look at
First is well what we’re going to break it down into is you’re going to need a certain amount of knowledge you’re going to need a certain amount of control of your boat and once you’ve got that
All you need is the actual competition to be going on for you to be getting involved with and I’m just going to say from the start it’s not as intimidating as you think as long as um you’re
Reasonably sensible about it so firstly there are different levels at which you can race your boat this is probably going to sound quite obvious to those of you who have thought about this but at
The most simple level of racing um it might just be there’s you and one or more of your friends who’ve got other boats and you say right let’s go out and we’re gonna have a Race So oh the new
Technology by the way uh magnet yes very nice I know um yes so it might be right you’re you’re standing on the beach you’ve got your boats and you and your mates you say right let’s have a
Little race um and there might be something out here like there might be quite a convenient boy out here there might be some sort of structure in the water here there might be something else like
A a boat that’s on an anchor here and you might say all right so we’re going to go out we’re all going to leave at the same time this is the most simple easy lowest level of intimidation of
Racing um the only thing to fear is if you think you’re going to win if you don’t win that’s the most that’s the thing that is the biggest uh bit of Devastation in racing so you and the wind is
From the top as always you go all right we’re going to start off by going to the boys so you have to tack out to the boy in racing by the way we generally leave the marks on the leftand side
It’s just the way that it is now the only times when it’s generally not the leftand side is in two styles of racing one is called match racing which is two boats head-to-head like the America’s Cup um the other style is long distance where it might just work out that you’re going round
The boys the other way so you go all right we’ll go round that one round that one we’ll go around there round that one again and then first one back to to the beach is the winner so that is
Very much the entry level of racing but it doesn’t mean that you have to have done that before you go in at the next level so the next level I would say is what’s called Club racing which is usually if
There’s a Sailing Club or somewhere like wildwind sailing holidays um which has a fleet of boats um most clubs or holiday places in fact will organize a race day once a week uh where everybody can just
Get out on the water and race so that would be the next level again this is um quite an un it’s less intimidating than the higher levels because at a club in theory you would know other
People there and those other people will be able to help you um before you set off they might say yeah this is what I’d recommend this is um the sort of strategy you can apply if you need a
Bit of strategy um and it’s very friendly at Club level and there might of course at your Club beat a couple of dingy Sailors who are really into it who are not particularly friendly on the water but you’ll soon learn who they are and you’ll just stay away from them easy yeah so
That would be the second level and um the co I think as we go through these levels we’ll just talk about what sort of course it might be so in Club racing it could absolutely be anything
Because maybe your Club um is on a river or um a fairly narrow a a constrained Waterway let’s call it so um you might be slightly restricted in where the course is going to be uh because of the
Geographical nature of where it is that you sail so you might have like a a start line and then out to a boy Round Here round here and then they say right you finish between this boy and a building
On land kind of thing might be like that uh at a club level or it might be open sea might be on a large lake anything at all um at Club level but yeah you um yeah yeah all right so going up to
The next level is um when boats from around your area might be traveling to go to an event in the UK we call this an open meeting um but it these races could have all sorts of different names
Like for example um in Ocean Springs Mississippi USA starting on I believe it is the 4th of April um is the mid Winters East um which is similar the same kind of thing of as an open meeting
Where boats will travel to the event um and you generally get bigger numbers in the sort of meetings so in an open meeting depending on the class of boat it could be between maybe 10
Boats if it’s a less popular class or it might be as many as 30 or 40 boats if it is a popular class hopefully at the mid Winters East um there’ll be 50 or 60 boats we’ll see I’ll be there um and then
In all of the rest of these um categories the course is fairly similar where you’ll either have what’s known as an upwind downwind course or a triangle course um so let’s just talk about what the course would generally be in this kind of race so you have a start line which
Will be between a boat this might be a motorboat or perhaps uh a yacht anything at all um and then you have that’s your start line it might be a boy it might just be a pole with a flag on it
M you’re gonna s you’re G to be asking how do we find out well this is going to come into the knowledge section of um what we’re talking about and then the first Mark is what you’d call
The Windwood mark because it is to Windwood of where you starting from um and then a standard course for Catamaran racing these days would be to have you’ll either have one or two marks we’ll keep it simple we’ll say we’ll have one Mark just here uh the other side of the start
Line and then the course would be something like this you’d start and we’ll draw in the tacking as well and jibing so from the start we go off we ignore this Mark from the start again going
Around this boy leaving it on the left side the port side of the boat and then coming down wind and we want to go round this boys so we J when we’re at about 90 degrees round a boy and um in
The sailing instructions which we’ll come on to in a minute they’ll say how many laps it would be so maybe it’s two laps good idea to count we tack there go round for a second time and
Then perhaps the finish line is the same of as the start line and there we go easy um the the course might vary but um this would be a standard course from open level all the way through to the
To the highest level so the next level after open meeting kind of level might be a regional championships like perhaps um your country has an inland championships or um I think in Italy they have what’s called uh Alpine cup which is like on a mountain lake um Regional and then after
Regional the top level event with in your country would be a national championships which is where all of the boats of a certain class are invited to travel to a venue uh which would be a venue with enough space for the expected amount of votes and um then at the national championships everyone
Races against each other and at the end of that the new National Champion is declared lovely very nice and then of course we could go above that level to a above National level would be perhaps European we have yeah you wouldn’t have that in America so much not a Europeans but um in
Europe would you believe we have a European championships in most classes and then above Europeans would be World Championships and then above World Championships then you get in to the heights of like the Olympic classes and um the top of the whole thing would be the Olympic Games for
The types of boat that we’re talking about on Joy Rider TV yeah so those are the different levels of um competition which you could attend now one type of competition that I didn’t mention which would kind of be somewhere between club and open kind of level would are longdistance races now these
Can be a great way of getting into some racing if you haven’t done any racing before because generally in Long Distance races the fleet is much better much more spread out so in a long distance race you might have the same sort of start line but then there might be a um geographical
Feature that you’re going to sail around or um you might be sailing around an island like in the rondom tessla the biggest catamaran race in the world um you might be sailing along a coastline to the next venue uh to the the Finish would be at the next point on the coastline many
Different um formats for a longdistance race it basically depends on what geographical features are available in that place um but a longdistance race could be anything from I don’t know about 15 miles all the way up to in a day maybe about 100 miles or something um
Could be quite a long one uh just depends on the event so that is also a consideration a type of event all right so I’m just going to check in with everyone who’s checking in before we continue into
Part two of um what experience do you need to get into some racing so we got Mark and Janet on board in Ohio 40 days until spring no ice on the lake right now hoping for an early start oh yes we got
Mr Tony k in Denmark uh great to have you with us Mr Tony KP spicy fist one is on board as always uh just helping to keep us all going okay we got Jose who is in maau haven’t heard from Jose for a
While um happy new Chinese year Happy Chinese New Year uh Year of the Dragon in fact Jose says which um maybe in the sort of boats that we’re talking about out it’s Year of the Dragon yeah um so it’s
Time for the kids to get on board um we got first light sailing from gallano Island British Columbia Canada great to have you with us Aaron’s here from New Zealand good morning Aaron I believe
It must be something like uh what half past 5 in the morning where you are great job Leland Lee as always tuning in from Clear Water Florida we got Edward on board who uh says if uh we didn’t race
We would not know how to gauge ourselves and how well we were sailing yeah which is a very good point which we could even say what is the point of racing I like going out sailing and having a
Nice time without the stress of other boats um in the same like sailing in close proximity to where I am but if you go through your whole sailing life without ever sailing in reasonable proximity to other boats you’re never really going to know unless of course these days we’re using GPS’s
To get on the speed stick but you never really know how well you’re sailing your boat because um there’s nothing better as a gauge for how well you’re sailing your boat than another boat of the
Same type typ uh which is near to you and either you’re going to be going faster or they’re going to be going faster or you might be going at the same speed would you believe yeah so um yeah it’s
A very good reason to start racing but another good reason to start racing is it gives your sailing session some real purpose and discipline which means you have to be on the start line at a
Certain time you’ve got to be starting the race at a certain time you’ve got to sail around a certain course so from perhaps your sailing life is not so disciplined you just do what you like
Which is nice because as we know it’s meant to be fun um but a bit of discipline now and then is going to make you a better sailor which do you think you would have more fun in those fun
Sessions if you were a better sailor perhaps you would yeah so um those are some very good reasons for uh doing some competition but for like going to an open meeting like um the mid Winters East a
Really good idea of going to something like that would be especially if you haven’t been before if you’ve never even considered racing there’ll be a load of other sailors there a lot perhaps in the same type of boat that you’ve got and it’s a great way of looking at other people’s boats
Like when they’re on the beach seeing how they’re set up thinking oh I could do that’s a good idea I could do that with my boat um and talking to the other Sailors finding out if you and they
Have similar issues with your boats or you’ve done similar things and new ideas can come from these get togethers of likeminded individuals and it’s a great way of meeting people who might end up being really good friends because of these Mutual interests good reasons to get into a bit of racing
Okay we’ve got Ryan on board in uh the Hawaiian Islands yes we have um Ryan says hi all from the deep pacific the bees are starting to swarm that means we’re chasing the nectar let’s get after it
All right nice one Ryan we’ve got um sorry I don’t I my knowledge of reading the Russian language is limited but um is it Hector from Russia uh nice to have you on board hope um it’s not too cold
Where you are right Leeland Lee says we race twice a month at my club we got Max on board in rosenheim Germany uh great to have you with us Max always a pleasure uh never a chore um all
Right I’m going to go on to the um the next part of am I good enough to go to my first race so so next bit is knowledge there are a few things you need to know before you um be before you
Actually get on the race course for the first time so the first thing which is good to know is the procedure of the whole thing so at these different levels that we just talked about the
Procedure is going to be different so at a mates level it will just be like a couple of couple of guys standing on the beach and you say we’re going to go there there there right you get you
Boat everybody on the water okay we ready let’s go easy procedure then going up the procedure might be slightly different so at Club level it might be like right the race starts at 11 a.m. and at 10:
A.m. there will be a briefing nice not all clubs do this but some do and um you might have a briefing when you go to an open meeting or to a regional or national or any level of competition
There should be some sort of race briefing on land in good time before you need to actually be on the start line and in the briefing what will usually be there is um at the lower levels like at Club
Level um or yeah Club level will be all right this is the starting sequence but at Club level most people will be racing their most weeks so you’d know the starting sequence but it’s a good time
To ask questions like if you haven’t raced there before you could say uh could you let me know what the starting sequence is so I think the starting sequence is a good thing to know what you’d usually have the starting sequence will come from the starting boat or perhaps if you are sailing
Um at Club level the wind might blow side onto your club and you might have a boy like here and then you might have a a box on land with a flag pole um and this is the start line like
This but regardless of which type of start line you’ve got um what’s likely to be is some sort of Preparatory signal which would be at around five minutes so it’s good idea to have a watch with a um a countdown timer when you know what your starting sequence is get your countdown
Timer ready so set it to five minutes and then when you go out for the start of the race park your boat and wait for the five minute signal this will usually be a sound signal accompanied
By a flag or it’s actually a flag accompanied by a sound signal when that sound signal goes flag goes up you start your clock and then you know that five minutes later you need to be crossing the start line with good speed in the right direction all right but we’re not going
To go into tactics strategy or anything else like that just now we’re just going through the nuts and bolts of how to get around the race course and what level of experience you need so um yeah there’ll be other flags during the starting sequence so um there’s likely to
Be a second flag at four minutes with a sound signal this is um really useful because you might miss the first signal but you know the flags are going to be different colors so the second flag would probably be don’t know if it’s everywhere but in a lot of places called the Blue
Peter which is a blue flag with a white square in the middle uh blue Peter or P signal flag that means Preparatory that would usually be after the last flag the first flag that goes up and then maybe there’ll be another flag on one minute um but again at the race briefing
This is where you’ll find this out now if you are sailing at a slightly higher level rather than having a race briefing to explain all these things what you might have is what’s called sailing instructions which is like a online or a published like photocopied couple of pages which
Just have numbered points and one of the points will be this is the starting procedure this is what the course is so it might be in sailing instructions which you can actually read or it might be at the race briefing um so before you can race you need to know your starting
Procedure which will either be in a briefing or in your sailing instructions and you need to know what the course is going to be um because although you might think well I’m not going to be
Winning I could just follow the other boats you need to know it’s a good practice to know where it is that you’re going like if we cast our minds back to the what’s most important when
We go sailing video I think we decided that what is most important is where are you going so you need to know even if you don’t think you are going to be winning you still need to know where you’re
Going um what else do we need to know before we hit the race course yeah so our briefing it’s a time when we can ask questions like what um is the procedure for a shortened course they might
Say in the sailing instructions uh it’s two laps but what if the wind drops and there’s not enough win to get around two laps the race committee will still want to get a result from that race so they
Might say okay if there’s a shortened course we might move a mark make it actually shorter in distance or we might have a sound signal with a flag that means you only do one lap instead of
Two that sort of thing things like that good to know second thing we need to know are the rules very important um because the point of the rules is so that we can avoid collisions so the most
Important rule there is is to know the rules but to avoid collisions now the best way of avoiding collisions uh while you’re out sailing two things one is spatial awareness so to always know where the other boats are so if you’re lucky enough to be sailing a boat with two people
Then it can be the job of the crew on the boat to be looking around all of the time and letting the helm the person steering know all right we’ve got boats there boats there we got boats there or
They could just say no we’re clear we’re fine um but um just feeding information about where the other boats are because you need to know where the other boats are otherwise you might actually have
A collision or at best a last minute Panic of oh gosh we’re about to hit that other boat we better do an evasive maneuver that sort of thing so um yeah avoid collisions by being spatially aware the
Second way of avoiding collisions is by thinking ahead so um like if um we get rid of these boys and this boat has right of way because he’s on starboard attack the wind is coming over the right side of the boat first um so if this boat is being spatially aware he
Knows that that boat is there and thinking ahead so rather than leaving it until we’ve got a sort of near Collision um about to happen so you have to do an emergency tack by thinking ahead you could just alter your course slightly say you s clear
Behind and avoiding the collision and not being forced into a last minute maneuver like if you can imagine if you have to tack your catamaran and you’re not really ready for it what are the
Chances of that tack being a good one not as much that’s how much yeah so there we go um knowing the rules just so you know there are three main rules to know Porton starboard when we’re
On opposite taxs like this there’s Windwood and lewood so if one boat is going this way and one boat is going this way this is a big example um Porton starboard the boat on starboard Tac
Has right of way so the boat on Port Tac has to keep going Windwood and lewood um or lard um the boat the lur boat has right of way so the windward boat has to keep clear again we can avoid collisions and last minute Maneuvers by thinking ahead and being spatially aware the
Third one and this is uh can be very relevant in a mixed Fleet is overtaking boat keeps clear so if this is you on your Hobe 20 formula and there’s Little Billy sailing up ahead in his Optimist this situation seems fairly obvious that the boat overtaking should keep clear but
Um if you’re in two boats of a similar speed the same rule applies that if you’re coming from Clear behind you have to keep clear of the boat in front there we go all right and
Um the last thing we need to know before we go racing as I said with the sailing instructions and procedure of the whole thing is we need to know where we’re going very important so also in
The procedure of the whole thing how the races run you then need to know when we finish the race are we going to have another race or or are we meant to go back to the beach because
There are safety uh considerations that the race committee have to take and a lot of the time if there’s been a race they like to have the boats to go back to the beach first um so that you can
Or or at least let the committee boat know that you’re staying out sailing um so that when you’re not on the beach later on uh people don’t start worrying we’ve lost the boat that kind of thing
But knowing how many races there are GNA be very important stuff so that kind of thing um all right hope everybody’s enjoying this great insight into are you ready to go and race just going to go back to the live um questions all right Leland Lee says any methods to weighing my Hobe
16 um yeah we could quickly go into that yeah it’s not easy actually um you’d need to I suppose the obvious you see at a World Championships incidentally they do occasionally depends on the class they might weigh your boat where they actually put your boat on um
Four like kind of like bathroom scales but four scales which are all linked together through cables um so they get an accurate reading for how heavy your boat is but um the easiest way of weighing your boat might be um to do it to get an accurate idea with
Normal um let’s call them things yeah I would probably go this is gonna this is the best that I could come up with just thinking about it now if this is our boat like this there’s the beam um we want to get a strap or a a good rope which we can somehow
Support the boat with so like make a bridal with rope like this maybe from the back as well and it will take a bit of trial and error because what we’re actually going to try to do
Is pick the whole boat up so we need to have a strong tree this is the best that I could come up with on the spot there Le uh strong tree there’s the branch of the tree the strong
Bit and then we put a rope or a strap around the strong tree then we could put our um main sheet blocks upside down so the cleat is on the top one and then onto the main sheet blocks we
Put like a big um scale that can weigh up to I I would go up to 200 kilos that would be a good range on there um but you want to have that scale where you’re going to be able to
See the gauge yeah and then that attaches to this elaborate Bridal that you’ve put on your boat and then you pull the main sheet hoisting the boat off the ground and that will give you a that’ll be actually a pretty accurate how much does it weigh but without the Mast you might have
To weigh the Mast separately because with this hanging boat configuration it might be difficult to balance it with the Mast on the boat as well so that would be option a option b would be to weigh all the component parts individually which you could do either with a hanging scale or with
Like a a bathroom style scale that can go up to I think you’d only need to go up to about 60 kg with a kind of bathroom sort of scale which bathroom sort of scales do go up that High um as we know
Uh more 300 maybe um yeah that would be option b uh option C if we just want to get a rough idea of how much the boat weighs we could have one hole on the floor have the other hole resting
On these bathroom scales and see what it says and then we’d have to do a bit of a guess for you know someone from the science department I’m sure could come up with a better uh way of doing
This but if you’ve got an idea in fact and you’re watching this um do put it in the comments below what would you do to weigh your boat there you are all right back to the live chat I hope that helps
A bit we got to on board in Texas great to have you with us too um Ryan says anyone gets sailing insurance for taking people out on the water I just got quoted $1,500 for two days curious if
Anyone has leads on cheaper insurance companies yeah usually you’re um if you’re doing it in a non-commercial way and you’re just taking friends out on the water I know in America um insurance is
A Hot Topic because um um you can get in trouble if somebody uh breaks a a finger or something but um in the UK for example you ensure your boat which I don’t know what a premium is these days
Maybe about 500 pounds for the year and that covers you for all the time that you go sailing if you syn somebody else’s boat while you’re out sailing and um it covers you and your um sailing
Partner for if something happens while out on the water so I don’t know what you need there the other thing you might be worth looking at is some sort of liability insurance if you’re taking many
People out and you are concerned then maybe for something like 200 I did speak to someone at the German Boat Show and um about my own situation with going sailing with people um for some Li
Ability insurance and I got quoted about 300 for a year to be able to take people out professionally uh giving them instruction and things so I’m sure that kind of thing should work so uh worth having
A look at there all right so we’ve got kenure on board oh it’s Phillip from Brussels great to have you with us Phillip nice to have you on board Paul on board in Ottawa Canada all right so spicy fist
One says total newcomer to racing is it better to have a rolling start trying to time the line or just sit behind the line in irons waiting for the start all right yeah this is a good question um now what it depends on is the consistency of the wind and your
Ability to control your speed so if we’ve got our start line here we want to be rolling at the time of the start so that’s the first thing but um what we want to um look at is when we put the boat into motion because we don’t want to be just constantly
Going up here all right we’re a bit early all right let’s go round again Jive go up here and just keep going all of the time instead what we want to do as a strategy for the start and this
Is a good way to start off is do some practice good thing to do before you actually hit your first start line even if it means on the day of your first race just get out 20 minutes minutes
Early or 15 minutes early and just have a trial run of sailing through the start line and see how it feels to actually have to sail through this Gap you may be wondering how big will this be
It’s meant to be one and a half boat lengths long um per boat in the fleet so if you’ve got let’s do easy maths 20 boats in the fleet that would then be 30 boat lengths long the start line which
Would be more than enough space for everybody to cross the start line at the same time but what I would suggest when you’re first getting into the racing is depending on the amount of wind have a
Few practices see what works for you but put your boat down here and then Park up so uh you could park up by letting the main Sail Out possibly put the jib on the wrong side and then push the
Rudders across that’s the best way to park your boat you may feel uh that maybe we’re not going to push the Rudders across quite as hard what’s nice to do sometimes is just to keep the boat going forwards very slowly because when the boat’s going forwards that means we can steer which can
Be quite valuable but if you’re parked sat still on starboard attack so the wind is coming over the right side of the boat first then the only time another boat will actually have right of way on
You is if they are right next to you underneath here and they decide they want to save s up that way a bit more then you might have to sail up that way as well because they’ve got right of way so
Sit here and then depending on the number of boats that are also starting basically the more boats that are starting you are going to have to move forwards earlier because otherwise everybody else is just going to get in front of you but the fewer boats that are sailing that are starting you can
Start a bit later and uh from back here get your boat up to speed but gradually bring the jib onto the other side straighten up the Rudders let the boat start sailing and then slowly start bringing
Your main sail in timing it um perhaps you feel that you’re getting to the start line a bit too soon let the main sail out if that doesn’t slow you down enough head up towards the wind of course
You can only do that if there’s enough space up here um and uh then just use that slowing down if you need to speed up a bit maybe bear off slightly or that could be another strategy if you
Are too early and you think we’re going to cross the line but there’s loads of space down here you could bear off into this space which yes you’re going to go faster but no you’re not going to
Cross the start line as early as long as you’ve got that space But if it is your first time out on the race course and there are several other boats there you don’t have to feel that you need
To start with the other boats you could just get in your position down here let the other boats go off a bit if it’s looking a bit crowded and then sheet in once you’ve got space and start
Going forwards now with this position the one thing that we do want to make sure is that we put our boat in a position where we don’t have to tack before the start so if we put our boat down
Here we’re not going to be able to get across the start line so we’re going to have to tack once and then here on this Tac wind is coming over the left side first that means we’re on
Port Tac which means all of the boats coming this way have right of way so we don’t really want to start on Port Tac not the first time anyway uh so we have to attack again so it’s better to put
Your boat kind of behind the committee boat maybe a good position depending again on the amount of boats in the fleet the good position between 10 and 5 boat lengths behind the committee boat so
Then you can hit the start line in the middle and off we go there we go all right I hope everyone’s uh enjoying uh getting into some racing so uh we got Kevin on board in Illinois great
To have you with us Kevin um I’ll be seeing you in Ocean Springs Mississippi looking forward to it already um right first light sailing says this is addressed to spicy fist you can always Park then ride timing the line will gain you 30 seconds to a minute of Advantage so it’ll depend
For that particular kind of racing you’re doing uh for example a longdistance race might not be worth it yet if you try to come in at speed from far back and you don’t have this ability to bear
Away if you’re early being over the start line before this timing has expired um means you’ll be early on the start line which will probably mean that most times it means that you have to recross the start line and most times um well not most times sometimes if you’re early you
Can just duck back under the start line like that but if there’s other boats there you’re not going to have any rights so difficult um the other way that it might be in the sailing instructions is
After the start if you’re early you have to go round the end and then restart that’s generally a bit safer and especially if it’s a fairly um competitive Fleet they might say there’s around
The ends ru there we go all right Johan 66 nice to have you with us says put a race signals sticker on your boat yeah good idea if um yeah so that you can get these stickers which have all of the
Flags and what they’re called on there so that when the race committee says all right on five minutes we’re putting up a w flag for example you’ll know what a w flag looks like that kind
Of thing all right uh toot says if you want to do well in racing hit the like button on this video thanks toot good F good thinking all right Paul is on board oh in Ottawa Canada I was in a position
Last year uh where a guy tacked in front of me in the starting box he was Leeward and pushed me up into the race committee yeah probably it does sound from that brief description that he didn’t
Have rights to do that and um what good question uh that nobody asked but I’m going to answer it anyway what happens if a rule is broken perhaps you’ve broken a rule um you wouldn’t obviously
Do it deliberately because you’re all good people but um if you break a rule two things depending on how serious it was one is that you can exonerate yourself you can make it all better by performing a penalty turn which in camaran racing is usually a 360 degree turn which if you’re
If you’re sailing up here or let’s um let’s get this fell out so if we’re sailing along a penalty turn would be like this you have to tack bearway Jive and then back on to your original course so
A 360 which includes one Tack and one jib um the other thing that might happen if you’ve broken a rule especially if you didn’t do a penalty turn is you might get protested where um the boat that you
Infringe Will shout protest and then depending on the level of the competition of course you might have to go to a protest hearing where it’s basically like being at school in front of the Headmaster uh the person who’s complaining the person who was meant to have done it wrong and
Between you all you decide if you were wrong or not and if you were wrong you might just get disqualified from that race it’s quite a valuable learning experience but um the problem with protest hearings are usually at the time when the pro protest hearings going on that’s when you
Want to be drinking a cold beer that’s a problem um yeah so there we go all right we got hands on board nice to have you with us Hans hope it’s all good in Germany he says weighing the boat put it
On the trailer and then drive to the scales that’s of course if you got those big scales for weighing Vehicles right Charlie’s with us hi Charlie nice to have you on board um all right and then uh Hans continues take the boat off the trailer go and weigh your trailer and calculate
The difference yeah that would be if you’ve got these big scales which are I think they’re for weighing trucks then that would be a really good way of uh weighing your boat all right uh Benny in
Sweden is signing in good evening Benny yoins here in AR Tina I believe uh nice to have you on board also all right here’s what Charlie says you sit on the line and then at about five or 10
Seconds you would do a trigger pull on the line trigger pull meaning you get the boat going as fast as possible as quickly as possible then you give some good speed that’s what I do on
My boat um yeah very effective so depends on the type of boat the amount of wind and the amount of other boats and how confident you’re feeling as well the more confident you feel the
More you can kind of push it so this question has lasted the whole Q&A by the way very good uh thanks to everybody for staying with us so in conclusion to this question um in terms of
Your actual sailing skills how good do you need to be before you can hit the race course it’s all about control the first thing is you need to have the ability to sail your boat around a
Course so um ideally you can sail your your boat around the two types of courses which we mentioned earlier which would be around an upwind and downwind course so you need to be able to get your boat around the
Course like this have ideally you’ll have practiced a little bit uh at least sailing around boys when we go around a boy we want to go in wide come out tight um ideally but most importantly is when we go around a boy we want to be letting the sales out as we go
Around because as we know when we’re sailing downwind we want the sales out so upwind we want the sales in so as we turn around the boy letting the sales out um we need to uh have in our mind different strategies for getting round the course depending on what’s happening cuz
Like for example off the start line you might have ended up over here so then you need to be able to work it out all right if we tack here we’ll go this way and then we’ll tack again over
Here so you just need to be able to uh kind of visualize your method of getting round the course and have the control to be able to sail around the course so around an upwind downwind course Maybe around a triangular course like this which would be similar except down here
It would take any decision making out of it for you when it is time to J because there’s a boy instead um and then the other bit of actual boat uh handling skills that you need is the ability to
Stop and start your boat so um watch the video on going into irons uh which I think the video might have been called stopping your boat um because you need to be able to stop your boat and then
After you’ve stopped it you need to be able to start again there we go so I think if you can do all that in the amount of wind that is on the day of the racing then you are good to go and hit the
Race course like I said earlier you don’t have to absolutely go in pistols blazing um expecting to mix it up with everybody else you can hang back a little bit just keep your eyes open for other
Boats look at what the other boats are doing copy them if you uh think that’s applicable uh like the direction that they’re sailing in think oh okay we can sail a bit closer to the because they are
Nice and that means you’re going to gain so much experience from even your first day on the race course and you know maybe it won’t go so well maybe things will go wrong maybe um you’ll
Finish a long way after the other boats but the way to get something out of that is if you can kind of analyze as it’s happening if you can kind of be thinking so why is it that they’re doing so
They’re going so much better than us and you know if you can take one thing away from a bad result then that makes it positive because next time you can um apply what you’ve learned and perhaps
You finish behind the other boats but you really don’t know why then that is what the Sailing Club bar is for where you could go and have a drink afterwards talk to the other Sailors and say um
Do you have any idea of um why I didn’t do very well in that race because I can’t work it out uh they might say yeah um you just weren’t sailing uh up wind as close to the wind as you could have
Been something like that might say one of your Rudders was halfway up something like that there we go so I think if you’re confident to be able to sail around a course stop and start your boat
Get the knowledge get on the race course I think it’s a great opportunity to boost your skills try it when it’s convenient and then you can see if you like it because without trying how do
You know if you like it or not there we are all right I’m going to wrap that up there um on the racing all right one more from spicy fist who says is there a standard Direction one goes
Around a boy oh yeah uh you must have missed this from earlier yeah in racing generally we always leave the boy on the leftand side of the boat um but again this is what your sailing instructions
Or your race briefing are going to uh tell you which way you go around the boy but basically um I can’t think so much of an um example of when it wouldn’t work you have to imagine that
You’re actually putting a a piece of string around all of the marks of the race course so um you wouldn’t go down here and then kind of round here like this it has to be The Logical
Way there we go okay so I think I’m going to wrap that up there thanks to everybody for tuning in um and um oh yeah gosh I almost forgot we’ve got something very exciting coming up would you
Believe thanks for staying with me there there was a bit of a silence because I was trying to think about what it was that I was meant to announce yes um I’m collaborating with Whirlwind sales
In San Diego probably the best place in the USA to get non-original hobiecat sales from um because uh chip has kindly offered chip is the head salemaker at Whirlwind sales he has kindly offered to make
Me a set of sales um but the problem is at Whirlwind sales you’ve got way too much choice of what what color the sales can be so gonna launch on Sunday I’m G to launch a competition
Where you guys are going to design the sales and then I’m going to look at everybody’s designs and um whichever ones I’m going to between myself and Chip the salemaker whichever ones are we decide are the best designed sales colors they’re going to be the winner there’s going to be prizes
Involved so I’d like everybody to get involved because um the more people that if only two people get involved and their sale color choices are bad that means I’m going to be stuck with bad
Sale colors for all of the videos on Joy Rider TV in the next couple of years is so please get involved because the more of you that get involved the more chance there is that we’re going to come
Across an absolute pearler of a color scheme for a set of Hobie 16 sales so get involved we’re launching that on Sunday so check out the video on Sunday and get involved because that would
Be great um thank you very much and I’m going to chip off there just like to say hello to Ian who’s just tuned in in pemr Shire UK nice to have you with us in and uh toot says hit the like button
On your way out and I’ll see you on Sunday for the launch of this massive it is a competition prizes are involved I’ll let you know more about it on Sunday thanks very much see you soon see you on Sunday
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Didn’t get to join in live , what is the rule for the overtaking hobie when there is a mark/buoy involved ? Example slower boat nearest to the buoy