Sheboygan Invitational Team Clinic and Regatta

Introduction

Hans Graf, Executive Director at the US Sailing Center of Sheboygan and Bert Foster, RC Chair of the

Wayzata Yacht Club are organizing the event. The purpose of the event is to introduce and further the interest in “Team Racing” in Sonars to adult sailors who have been fleet racing for some time and want to try “Team Racing”. It will take place at the US Sailing Center of Sheboygan in their 8 matched Sonars plus one additional Sonar being towed over from the WYC (probably #757 Captain Hook). Sheboygan has 9 matched suites of North 3DR sails to be use on all nine boats.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

1. Thursday, August 27

   1. 1600 – 1900 Practice for Invited Teams

   2. 1800 -- Drinks and Snacks at Sheboygan YC

2. Friday, August 28

   1. 0800 – 0900 Registration SONAR teams

Continental Breakfast

2. 0900 – 1700 Team Racing Clinic with Coach Legler

3. 1800 – 1900 Drinks and Snacks at SYC

No Scheduled Dinner

3. Saturday, August 29

   1. 0800 Initial briefing with first umpire’s briefing to follow

   2. 0900 -- 1700 Racing

   3. 1800 Debrief with refreshments at SYC

   4. 1900 Drinks and dinner at SYC

4. Sunday, August 30

   1. 0800 Initial briefing

   2. 0900 Start of racing

   3. 1400 Deadline for last warning signal.

   4. ASAP Debrief with refreshments and prize giving.

Coach

Ken Legler has been engaged to coach the clinic and the 2 days of racing.

Ken Legler is the current preeminent sailing coach with the Tufts University Sailing Team. Past accomplishments include All-American sailor, US Sailing Team Coach, and national champion in college dinghies, team racing, one-design, offshore, and blind sailing as a sighted guide. Ken has participated in sixteen world championships as a competitor, principal race officer, head judge, commentator, and US Sailing Team coach. Since Ken began coaching at Tufts University in 1980, Tufts has won 19 college nationals have earned a collective 93 All-American honors. Prior to Tufts, Ken coached at the US Merchant Marine Academy and the US Naval Academy.

Race Management is one of Ken's greatest areas of expertise. Since 1994 Ken has been a Principal race Officer at Acura Key West Race Week, the biggest and best regatta in the United States.

Team Racing is a particular passion of Ken's, which he shares as commentator at the British Open for the Wilson Trophy in West Kirby, England and the Team Racing World championships at various venues.

Coaching with Kattack

We will bring Kattack units for the 9 Sonars and the WYC projector. At the debrief at the end of each day we will project the activity on a screen and Ken Legler enlighten the group of 27 sailors.

Invitations

Three teams will race with 3 boats on a team. The teams being invited are:

1. WYC Fleet #5

2. The Winnipeg Sonar fleet

3. The Sheboygan Yacht Club.

Racing

Racing will be mainsail and jib only (no spinnakers). There will be no boat swapping. The course will be a short windward leeward with a center start finish with one time around. It will make the races 8 to 15 minutes. Team A will race B while C watches. Then A races C and B watches, then B races C and A watches. During the ”watching” Ken will do some debriefing/coaching. The coach and PRO could change this

Umpiring

Because this is more of an introduction and learning experience event, the umpiring will be less formal than would be used in a high level event.

Prizes

Prizes will be awarded.

Cost

The entry fee is $1200 per team. Three boats per team. Three sailors per boat. That’s $133.00 per person and will include continental breakfast, lunch, water, and debrief refreshments for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Friday night cocktails, Saturday night dinner and an award for each skipper and crew. Extra dinner tickets can be purchased for $25 per person

Summer Team Racing Training

In the planning stage is one Friday night Team Racing evening per month at WYC with 6 boats and RC plus team racing coaching evening by Blake, Gordy, and Dave Elsmo (head of Wayzata Sailing School)