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New In Southern Mass Sailing
For the past several months, Southern Mass Sailing Reps and Board have spent time innovating and adding services to our members. A good deal of time and energy has been spent by many people working to bring new features to our members.
Clinics
We will be providing clinics for both our 420 and Optimist sailors in the beginning of the season. Southern Mass Sailing is bringing in top notch coaches to help our kids compete. Read below for the details and sign ups.
Medical Form
We spent some time and effort revising the Medical form, to reflect the actual needs of both Organizing authorities and Health Care professionals should there be a need for care. The biggest innovation is we will move this form online at Regatta Networks. For each regatta, we will create a report for PROs which will detail the medical issues. Details below.
Clinics
We are proud to have a sponsor for our Optimist Clinics, Sturgis Boat Works.
Sturgis Boat Works Optimist Clinics:
Silver Level: June 21-22, Scituate Harbor Yacht Club
Eligibility: Sailors should have at least 1 year experience in Red, White or Blue fleet, be serious about their racing and ready to work hard. Knowledge of the racing rules of sailing is required.
Description: This will be a two day intensive clinic. Sailors will be rigged and ready by 9 AM and clinic will last 8 or 9 hours. Curriculum will include boat handling, boat speed, starts, rounding, boat/sail set up and tuning. Clinic will go on the water rain or shine, light wind or heavy.
Schedule:
Day 1:
0900: Rigged and Ready
0915: Briefing, chalk talk, boat inspection
1230: Lunch (may be on the water)
1630: Back on Shore
1700: Boats De-rigged/Start Debreif
1800: End of Day
Day 2:
0900: Rigged and Ready
0915: Briefing, chalk talk, boat inspection
1230: Lunch (may be on the water)
1530: Back on Shore
1600: Boats Derigged/Start Debriefing
1700: End of Day
Register for this clinic ( registration will open April 21, 2008)
There will be nominal cost to defray fuel and food expenses
Gold Level: June 23-24, Beverly Yacht Club
Eligibility: Sailors should be in the top 40 overall in the SM Sailing Grand Prix Series. Sailors should be prepared for very long, very strenuous days in any and all wind and weather conditions. Resumes for very committed sailors not meeting the Grand Prix cut off will be considered on an individual basis.
Description: This will be a two day intensive clinic. Sailors will be rigged and ready by 9 AM and clinic will last 9 or 10 hours, taking lunch on the water and with extensive debriefing after sailing. Curriculum will include advanced boat handling, boat speed, starts and advanced sail trimming/tuning theory. Clinic will go on the water rain or shine, light wind or heavy and will include extensive debriefing time.
Schedule:
Day 1:
0900: Rigged and Ready
0915: Briefing, chalk talk, boat inspection
1230: Lunch on the water
1630: Back on Shore
1700: Boats De-rigged/Start Debreif
1900: End of Day
Register for this clinc
Day 2:
0900: Rigged and Ready
0915: Briefing, chalk talk, boat inspection
1230: Lunch on the water
1530: Back on Shore
1600: Boats Derigged/Start Debriefing
1700: End of Day
Register for this clinic ( registration will open April 21, 2008)
There will be nominal cost to defray fuel and food expenses
Coaching:
Head Coach: Todd Fedyszyn. Todd is currently the Head Coach at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, one of the strongest youth sailing programs in the country. Prior to St. Pete, he was the Head Coach at Corpus Christi Yacht Club, where he took an almost non-existent Optimist program and ramped it into a champion producing southern power house. He did the same with the CCYC Laser Team, producing some of the best youth Laser sailors in the country. He has been a US National Team Coach for over 5 years, has been Head Coach for several USODA International Teams, including the South American Championship, North American Championships, Garda Team and Danish Nationals Team, among others.
420 Clinics
Dates
June 14-15 Hyannis Yacht Club (boats provided by Hyannis Yacht Club)
June 16-17 Looking for a Host Club
June 23-24 Vineyard Haven Yacht Club ( prior to the Nash event)( bring your own boat)
Eligibility- Each member club will be allowed to send 3 boats (skipper and crew). Please consult with your Program Director to determine who will be sent form each club. This is a Gold Level clinic designed to help our sailors be competitive in the National arena. Southern Mass Sailing will be paying for the Coaches, each individual will be responsible for nominal expenses to help defray the cost of fuel and food. We hope each event will be hosted by a club who can provide boats for all clinic participants.
Coaches
Collin Merrick will be running the Hyannis event. Collin is an AA who graduated from Hobart and William Smith. His Team Racing team, Silver Panda, won the trifecta of Team Racing, Wilson Trophy, World Championships and the Hinman in 2007.
Brian Clancy will be at the Hyannis event, Brian was an HM AA at Hobart and graduated in 2007. He is presently coaching Optimists for the LISOT and will return to Wianno Yacht Club this summer as the 420 coach.
Register for the 420 clinics by click here (registration will open April 21st)
Southern Mass Medical Form
Innovation has been the key to making life simpler. Southern Mass Sailing, with the help of Medical Professionals, revised the Medical form used by our clubs for local events. Our goal has always been to eliminate as much paperwork and make entry and participation easy and simple. This year we have taken the step to put the Medical form online through Regatta Networks. You will only need to fill out this form once for the entire summer to participate in Southern Mass Sailing events. Once you have completed the form it will be stored at Regatta Networks and released to the events which you chose to sail in.
For PROs, an exception report will be generated showing you which sailors have concerns related to their Medical forms. You will no longer need to scan through documents. This will be a big time saver.
For this form to work, US Sailing memebrship will be required.
Click here to complete your Medical Form. ( available after May 1, 2008)
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