Randy Smyth coaching student
The 2019 Windcraft trimaran performance sailing clinic will be taught by Randy Smyth on May 18-19, 2019. (sold out) Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
We are very fortunate to have a world-class sailor, Olympic sailing coach and sailing movie “stuntman” Randy Smyth as chief instructor. Randy has a systematic, easy to use, approach to arriving at optimal sail trim, and he also has a host of personal experience to draw on which he shares willingly. Two other trimaran sailing coaches/racers/owners Don Wigston and Richard Allen will be assisting Randy. Topics covered in classroom presentations will be immediately be reinforced with on-the-water drills. Among the several positive aspects of the Performance Sailing Clinic which you might observe is the quality of the instruction, the patient onboard coaching from each assistant instructor, and the camaraderie among the participants and coaches stand out. When the group connects, good things happen! The focus of the clinic is to help current Corsair owners learn to sail their own boats more efficiently, and for newcomers to sample the joys and thrills of sailing on Corsair trimarans.
Sailors will be coming from many different places (Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida) with different levels of experience will be meeting one another for the first time. Different levels of sailing experience in a group can sometimes cause frustration and potentially divide the group, but from past clinics, this has never been an issue.
The clinic covers a variety of topics from docking and anchoring, using tell tales to trim and steer for maximum speed, techniques for tacking and jibing, how to set up a spinnaker, spinnaker hoisting and dousing, man-overboard recovery, judging a starting line and more.
Even though some of the topics covered in the classroom sessions, demonstrations, and drills are very challenging for some of the less experienced participants, each sailor's skills will improve from where they were at the beginning to the last set of on-the-water drills. The spirit of team effort camaraderie helped each participant to make good on each tack, gybe or spinnaker set or takedown, thereby extending themselves and improving their skills and confidence.
By Sunday afternoon everyone present will have 20 more friends than when you first arrived! Which underscores one of the great things about owning a Corsair trimaran--you become part of a friendly, supportive group whose members worldwide are constantly helping one another get the most out enjoyment out of their boats.
For more information about this clinic contact Richard Allen.
Richard is a long-standing Corsair trimaran expert with vast experience across all models.
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