Race training

Oh and I'm avaiable for lee bow tidal training for £200 p/hr

I think iGRF makes a fair point, and he is right to acknowledge that the problem may be due to his liking for obscure classes and handicap racing.  

How many Olympic medals would GBR have had since 2000 if they’d all coached themselves? Coaching works, but it is time consuming, expensive and needs doing frequently.

Importantly, coaching doesn’t just improve your technique, it keeps you engaged in the activity making it less likely you’ll drop out. But, of course, mid week sailing coaching would be impractical for anyone working, except maybe a few weeks in summer.

Originally posted by davidyacht I think iGRF makes a fair point, and he is right to acknowledge that the problem may be due to his liking for boats that are nice to sail and therefore handicap racing. ]

FTFY

It's been my experience re 'training' that you can lead a horse to water... Many a time over the years back in the day when called upon to offer 'advice' to would be racing boardsailors, you'd explain what is required then watch as they do the exact opposite.

The fact is we need participants, not winners and losers, we tend to only take advice from the 'winners' and I'm here to tell you that for the most part they aint always nice 'particiapants' and nearly always very bad losers.

I like to find my own way about, sometimes, in fact these days, most times it's wrong, but I like to think it doesn't take from the sense of enjoyment of a race. Sure I'd be happy for someone with greater knowledge and skill to offer suggestions, but are they going to improve my handicap? No, nothing they are going to do is going to undo the new unfairness that I find myself surrounded with in my boat versus my friends in theirs and that I find more annoying than any sense of curable incompetence that might beset me, and anyway old dog new tricks?

There's also a very big practical difference between getting a tennis coach for a few hours to getting someone to do something similar for sailing.
The tennis or golf coach will come to wherever you play and stand there watching you, and giving advice. At the most they may bring a camera and a racquet or clubs with them.
A coach who came to a sailing club for individual coaching on all but the smallest of ponds won't be able to coach from standing on the side of the lake. This means they have to bring a boat with them to coach from. RIBs and the petrol and maintenance needed for them are very expensive.