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To prepare the exit
The preparation of regata is so important how what it happens in her. In order to gain one regata is fundamental to work in the preparations, since regatas does not only gain on the water. The tactical one must study the rules of regata, the meteo predicted and to analyze the other participants. The regulation establishes like will be the game rules that we must memorize to as well present the other members of our crew. Most important like the route, top in the arrival, details of the adversaries, they even can be written as a “cutlets” and be stuck on the spanker boom or any part of the cover, so that they are always by hand. Before regata he is advisable to make “briefing” to review them and to clarify the most important points. We must make clear which is the line of exit and arrival, possible changes of schedule or route due to the meteo of last hour, color of the buoys, in which felt it is necessary to cross the lines,… If we have any doubt, it does not leave them for last the 10 minutes, and resuélvalas with the committee of regata that stops that is. Sometimes the other participants are not the best way to solve the uncertainties because she can give with which she comments an erroneous information deliberately to him with the purpose of to confuse to him. It would not be the first time.
The first compasses of regata can around be confused by the great number of boats to ours, the boats and boats that do not participate, and the avalanche of tactical intelligence that it comes to us above. For that reason the “previous Briefing” is important when coming out and to have the ideas very clear. More ahead we will be able to modify the strategy. The tactical one must at any moment know the classification regata since it can alter the tactics to follow during his development. Perhaps we must “mark” a participant and therefore not to make case to the others. When one competes in compensated time is important to have in the head the list of the ratings to know which is our real classification. Perhaps a boat with that we fought elbow with elbow does not have as much importance if ours handicap causes that we happen to him in the made goals final classification through. We must read the instructions of the competition carefully since although almost all the points are identical to those of others regatas, always is something it changes and it is this point exactly the one that does not have to happen unnoticed under pain to be penalized or to be disqualified! We must start off with the most appropriate candles for the meteo of the moment of the exit, since to change of candles it will make us lose advantage enough. When the meteo perfectly is established the decision is evident, but when prehorseradish tree changes, the decision can be more complicated. Still however, most of the regatistas prefer to leave with the appropriate candles to the wind force at the time of the exit.
Before the doubt, it leaves with the appropriate candles for the present meteorological situation. But it considers the possible changes in the conditions of the wind and the sea.
The meteo The last weather reports before regata are of great importance and can change of drastic form the form in which we confront the race. Also we must consider as it is the sea disturbance that can stay in spite of a change in the meteo. We must evaluate as it changes the thermal breeze, or if the wind corresponds to an established situation that can as well modify in direction and magnitude by the coastal relief of the zone where we will run. And one does not forget the possible currents that in many occasions can decide the tactics to use.
The part of the meteo will be printed in the office of the port or the captainship, but we must resist it with other information as they can be maps in Internet, telephones of weather data and naturally our appreciation as soon as we arrive at the zone.
To prepare the exit The 40 minutes before the exit are of great importance to warm up themselves and to analyze the final situation in which we are going to face to the adversaries. All the crew must make the exercises of heating, we will observe the sea disturbance, how the meteo has evolved, will take the measures to the line of exit, and will verify if our strategy to follow is adapted. When following the already pre-established procedures we reduce stress and we will be able not to as much forget important points the boat as of our own preparation. We must realize I embroider by each side in fitted and to take the angles from the compass, to fit the electronic equipment of navigation and to make a maneuver with the espí that will help us to enter heat. Also he is interesting to sail of empopada verifying the course that we make and happen near the boat of the committee to observe the pavilions to see if it has changed something in the organization of regata.
Also it agrees to control all the adjustments of the boat and to deduce the current that we have. To take the eaten good body but without happening to us is as important as all the others, and by all means wearing the suitable clothes not to pass cold. In regatas with many crew and of great relevance like for example the America Glass the things are many that must be reviewed, and for that reason all the equipment takes his check-list that begins to verify three or four hours before occurring the exit, dice the great number of points to verify. It is necessary to verify it everything and not to leave anything at random. The latest is to validate the strategy and to explain it to all the crew, which aid to determine the ideas. Minutes before the exit is the moment for deciding if we used one of them foque, in case the wind was right in the limit in the election between two candles of prow.
The line of exit It is important to know how to choose the most favorable zone of the line of exit that will depend naturally on how the wind comes. When the wind comes perpendicular to the line of exit both ends of the line are equal and advantages among them do not exist, but the wind comes from a side either another one, we must choose the end of the near line the more from where the wind comes. We will really have gained a little windward.
Logical, since this way we will have the faced wind less and we will be able to advance more towards the buoy without having to turn. If we left from the opposite side, the side of the located line of exit more to leeward not only we lose windward, if not that also we will have the wind more faced way of the first buoy. The effect is very appreciable and for this reason, to little that the wind does not come right in perpendicular to the line, we will have to look for the side of windward of this line, unless we want to lose! We suppose that the line of exit is of 1,000 meters and that the wind comes from 10º remote of the perpendicular. The boat located in the good side of the line of exit already has cattles about 250 meters, so that this difference can be one of the keys for the victory.
When the line of exit is very concurred due to the great number of participants, to take the good position can be gotten to complicate much! With wind instruments we will be able to determine accurately by where the wind comes to us while we move on the line of exit. Soon we will change of direction returning to sail on the line of exit but in opposite sense and will return to take the wind angle in our instruments. We will be able to divide equally the direction very exactly from where they come the wind and therefore to know how in that side of the line to take the exit. In the worse one of the cases and if still it does not have much experience, it observes where the other boats go. It is rare that all are mistaken, especially the good ones!
The good prisms binocular allow to take markings that will help us to know that side of the left line of we must be positioned.
More information on “the Exit”: The exit: Strategy and sensitization
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