NORTHERN TERA COACHING

On 15 and 16 October Ripon SC hosted the first of a series of Tera training sessions to be held in the north over the winter months.  Ripon now have a fleet of 22 Tera dinghies, and most of the home boats were out for the event, augmented with visitors from Sunderland YC, Derwent Reservoir SC and Yorkshire Ouse SC.  With coaching led by Jonathan Lewis, the National Squad Coach, and Brett Cockayne, who will be working with the Northern fleet from now on, the participants had 2 days of great sailing. 

The coaching on Saturday focused on boat handling skills, with the fleet learning to ‘Superman’ as they approached windward marks, developing their roll tacking skills and looking at start line tactics.  On Sunday the participants joined in the club racing, with a 75 minute pursuit race in the morning and two handicap races in the afternoon.  Jonathan and Brett provided on the water coaching and the fleet then reviewed their performance during the debriefing sessions.  There were some very tired, but happy sailors at the end of a brilliant two days!

The timetable for the remainder of the coaching is now being finalized and there is a great circuit of Tera Open meetings being developed for the North of England for 2012, including the inaugural Northern Championships which will be hosted by Ripon SC at the end of May.

For further information on this please get in touch with Chief Coach Jonathan Lewis or with Ripon SC’s Jennie Clark (commodore@ripon-sc.org.uk)