COMMUNICATION RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Calling relatives is important. I’m not talking about calling your parents (but you should do that too). I’m talking about monitoring and communicating your relative performance in a sailboat race.

MORGAN TRUBOVICH

THE importance of comparing your performance to another competitor during a race is an underrated part of sailing a boat competitively. We hear a lot about having good onboard communication about what’s happening on the boat. While that’s true, it’s also important to communicate what’s happening outside the boat and what’s happening relative to your nearest competitors. So, let’s cover some techniques to improve this aspect of your next race. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on calling upwind relatives. It’s best to start calling relatives as soon as possible after the start. This first few minutes is a critical boatspeed part of the race, and the sooner your team can get locked in, the better. Oftentimes, the teams that get their performance going the soonest after…

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Sailing World (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2023

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