2007

The moment of the truth. In the exit any result is not decided, but what we do he will be crucial. Moment of maximum tension, emotion, nerves and also great confusion due to the apelotonamiento of boats on the line of exit. It is the moment for putting in practice all the learned one and for fulfilling the strategy planned.

The good exits are not fruits of the chance and respond to the sum of many details good preparations. The important thing in a race is the regularity and the good work applied at all the moments. It is not necessary to be fastest, most aggressive and the “masters of the universe” to win. The certainty, the common sense and the continued effort bear better fruits than the best spark of momentary profit. The champions often do not leave first, but always usually they are between the head positions hoping its opportunity. It is possible to be champion of the world without gaining not one sleeve, demonstrating that the regularity is most important, as for example demonstrated the New Zealand Gavin Brady, champion of the world without to have gained not one sleeve!

But lowering to the practitioner, we must consider a good exit if we have been able to pass the line of exit in the side of more favorable windward, and right after the exit cannon shot clearly! But it is not enough. We must manage to put the boat to total yield of immediate form and to start up the strategy and route that we have defined previously. And as important as to leave sudden flight it is not to let itself cover by the other competitors. We do not have to allow that another boat is put to us above especially if covers the wind to us.

Boat has the white it crude in this position. In half of the group of boats we will be covered and will be very difficult to maneuver to look for our hollow.

When defining the strategy we will have considered the data of last hour on the evolution of the wind, the currents, clouds and the possible changes of buoys. It removed the ideal route and will evaluate the risk yet that it has to be followed by other boats that would make worse the maneuverability and navigation. Also we will weigh the mood and physicist of our equipment by then to decide what we are going to do. Our strategy.

Sometimes to obtain a perfect exit requires to accept many risks that go against the regularity and security of which we spoke in previous paragraphs. Therefore it is not normal to see the champions in 1º position of the exits. To leave always looking for the best side the exit leads to obstructions where a pile of boats is joined, with ominous results. For that reason sometimes the exit position is better to sacrifice something, which sacrifices the remote possibility of one 1º position in exchange for assuring a position between the first positions.

Our white boat defends a space to leeward in which to be able to arrive after the cannon shot to gain speed quickly. For it we will maintain the boat of starboard in its site fitting not to leave space him. But we must have well-taken care of so that the boat located in our stern is not strained in the hollow that we have been able to leave frees.

It is fundamental continuously to evaluate the risks and of acting consequently with cold the good head. This is the blood of a champion. To take extreme risks and never to overcome positions little by little. To venture itself to only look for one more a more favorable zone sometimes is very dangerous and for that reason it is normal to see very compact fleets in which nobody wants to run the risk “of investigating gladly”.

At the just previous moment when coming out two possibilities exist. To be placed in time near the line of exit or to wait for the last moment to go to her. When doing to evolve the sailboat in the line awaiting the exit is normal the fight with the others to keep the good position. With many participants or a line of short exit, we will have to maintain the type and to fight to hold the position, and that to approach the line in the last moment it would not allow us to take any good place. If on the contrary, the line of exit is great, we can hope the last minute to approach us her, sailing in parallel to the line and turning just in the last moment, looking for the best hollow between all the other boats that wait for the line of exit on the brink of madness. This allows us, varying the speed of the boat, “to fit” the cannon shot of exit with the best hollow than we have chosen moment in the last.

We will sail parallel to the line of exit having looked for the best hollow than they have been able to leave to other boats when defending a zone for them.