Women On The Water
Program Information
2020

WOW training registration

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WOW 2020
The 2020 Women on the Water season is designed to be a comprehensive program accessible to all skill levels and ages of adult sailors. It will combine social and educational opportunities ashore with a mix of on the water skills development and racing. 

Thanks to the success of the recent Magellan Campaign, we have purchased one (and are planning to purchase another) Ontario Sonar to build our fleet to six (6) Sonars. The original four (4) GLSS Sonars were refurbished and had the masts redone, with updated standing and running riggings and racing sails. 

Training Specifics:

WOW 2020 Training will focus on ALL levels of sailors:
o   Learn to Sail for beginners with no or minimum experience. This group will benefit from an onboard coach who will provide hands on experience learning sailing fundamentals. Each sailor will switch positions on the boat to learn about steering and crewing alike.
o   Learn to Race for those ladies who can already sail but want to advance their skills and start racing. The coach will work with the sailors from a coach boat in a series of drills that will introduce racing techniques and guide the team around the race course from start to finish. Team members will switch positions to experience all aspects of the boat.  Spinnaker work will be introduced at this level.
o   Race Teams for ladies that already race but want to elevate their skills to a higher level. Coaches will work on advanced techniques focusing on sail trim, spinnaker work, tactics and strategies for all segments of a race from starting to mark roundings to the finish. 

• We will have at least 5 Sonars (which would allow for 40 participants - but we’re trying to buy more!) which will utilize the following schedule on the training Thursdays:

• Brief chalk talk to go over drills specific for each skill level.
• Each Sonar will be assigned a Red and Black team of four (4) participants
• Each team will sail for approx. 1 hour and work through the curriculum. After that time, the Red and Black teams will rotate. 
• Whichever team is not sailing aboard a Sonar will be on a private powerboat following the Sonar fleet working with their own Coach aboard the powerboat to discuss what they did, what they learned and watching the alternate team participate in the same drills to gain a different perspective. 
• All teams will assist and be responsible for pulling Sonars at the end of each practice
• Brief chalk talk and cocktails to recap the evening

 

• Registration
  • We will open registration for general enrollment April 1st 
  • You will sign up as four person teams or as individuals. 
  • You will designate your appropriate skill level at registration - choosing between Learn to Sail, Learn to race, Race Team,
  • We want as many women as are interested to hopefully be able to enroll.
  • Price for Training will be $250 per sailor 

Class Specific Curriculums:

• Learn to Sail Curriculum
  •  Preparation to Sail: use of life jackets; rigging, finding wind; heading up and bearing down, tacking
  •  Crew operations and use of sail controls; points of sail, jibing, leaving the dock
  • Person in the water rescue plan, sequence of maneuvers, pickup approach and coming alongside the person in water
  •  Returning to the dock under sail in upwind, crosswind and downwind situations.
  •  Boat control: starting, stopping, speed control, sail luffing, getting out of irons, maneuvering around obstacles.

 

• Learn to Race Curriculum
  •  Launching and general rigging; Sail trim on each point of sail. Use of tell tails; Sailing upwind and tacking
  •  Review prior lessons; Downwind sailing and gybing; Spinnaker sets and takedowns
  •  Starting techniques and tactics / creating race strategies
  •  Mark roundings, choosing the correct tack on a new leg; Understanding wind shifts and puffs
  •  Put it all together! Practice race for each group of participants. 

 

• Racing Curriculum
  •  Fine tuning the rig; coordinated jib and mainsail trimming on the upwind, reacting to velocity changes
  •  Spinnaker sets gybing and takedowns
  •  Starting techniques and tactics / creating race strategies
  •  Mark roundings, choosing the correct tack on a new leg; Understanding wind shifts and puffs
  •  Put it all together! Practice race for each group of participants. 

 
Sonar Club Racing

• Club Sonars will be available for Charter on a first come, first serve basis with Magellan participation factoring into situations where there is a tie with registration timing. 
• Registrations will be for either a seasonal charter or individual evening - but season charters will take precedence. 
• Boat Captain’s will be responsible for paying the Charter Fee of $800 for each season or $250 for individual dates. 
• A “Boat Captain” will be anybody who takes the initiative and charters a Sonar. No individual may charter more than one Sonar.
• Boat Captains will be responsible for filling out their team.
• Boat Captains and their crew will be responsible for launching and retrieving their chartered Sonars. 
• The same Charter rules as set forth above will apply to both the Summer Thursday Series and the Fall Series. 
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All teams will assist and be responsible for pulling Sonars at the end of each practice. Brief chalk talk and cocktails will recap each evening.