Tuning Pictures from Jud
Huge Thanks goes out to Jud Smith, who managed to get some decent photos and deliver a killer tuning clinic, despite the conditions. Here’s the link to photos.
Huge Thanks goes out to Jud Smith, who managed to get some decent photos and deliver a killer tuning clinic, despite the conditions. Here’s the link to photos.
*Road To The Cup – Week 3* *Top-10 as of 6/7/15* In the mailbag this week, my observations of last week’s racing provoked some interesting comments, the most insightful of which came from a noted college coach and is paraphrased below: “That stuff you noticed about ducking boats – blowing the jib – check out…
*Road To The Cup – Week 5 (East Coasts Edition)* *Top-10 as of 6/15/15* (With Kim traveling, this week’s Road To The Cup is brought to you by Charlie Pendleton.) We had a lot of racing activity this week between the Twilight Series, regular MRA Saturday and of course, the East Coast Champs. *Twilight Series*:…
*Road To The Cup – Mother’s Day Edition* *2015 Preview** -5/9/15* You know you’re getting close when you start running into all if the familiar faces. I’ve run into virtually half the fleet in the past two weeks, and that was just at Crosby’s. Add in the fleet meeting, visits to the hardware store, yacht…
I see too many Rhodes with their boom angled up and bouncing around downwind. The top of their sail is twisted off and wind is spilling out. Use the vang to flatten out your leach and keep your boom stable. The top batten should be parallel to your boom in most conditions. In very heavy…
Top 10 as of 7/23/23 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Eight boats showed up for this week’s Twilight, which by the way, was the last one until August 10th (RW this week and Townie event on Thursday August 3rd). It proved notable for two reasons. First is that it was a drifter…
https://www.facebook.com/events/456627395074544/ 2019 Rhodes 19 – Fleet 5 Spring Seminar Please join us for: Crewing: Tips and Tricks from some of Fleet 5’s top crews Come hear panelists Christina Pandapas, Pete Kaznoski and Jim Taylor discuss both their in the boat maneuvers and out of the boat strategies for getting their drivers around the race course….