[Sailingclub] Tuesday Twilights

[Garrick Larkin]

Hi all,


Tuesday Twilights

The YMCA Sailing Club now has a full time sailing instructor working for 3 months over summer. His name is Dan and he is on exchange from a prestigious English sailing school (you can recognise him by the red YMCA instructors uniform or his English accent). 

Dan is running the Tuesday Twilight program and using it as a way of improving the skills of beginners. Each Tuesday he is running a theory session from 1700 followed by a sailing session from ~ 1815-1930. Rather than just racing the Twilights will include a range of basic boat handling skills that will help improve your sailing! A program will be out soon outlining the focus for each twilight session. 

Given Twilights are FREE (ANUSC pays) this is the best opportunity you have to improve your sailing skills!


Where / When

If your interested in both the theory and sailing turn up to the YMCA Sailing Club at 1700 then at 1800 move the 100m accross the bay to the ANUSC to rig and sail (if your late for theory thats ok just walk in quietly).

If you only want to sail turn up to the ANUSC around 1800. Adam Leavesley will be there most Tuesday nights and if not call him and he will lend you a key adam.leavesley at anu.edu.au (612)52706. Adam or whoever is opening up will send out a reminder email the day of Twilights so that you know they will be there.


For those who think their sailing skills are not good enough to participate

Before going to twilights most ANUSC members are concerned that they will be embarrassed because everybody else will be better than them. Those who go quickly realise that most ANUSC beginners straight off a beginners courses have better skills than other participants (probably because our beginners courses are longer than other clubs). As an example last Tuesday four races were held with ANU beginners dominating the results despite being vastly outnumbered by YMCASC members. Claire Fraser skippered a Laser Radial and won her first ever race and Adam Leavesley who has now been to 5 twilight sessions dominated with two 1sts, a 2nd and a 3rd!


cheers

Garrick
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