Nacra 15 Winter Camp 1 at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy

Nacra 15 Winter Camp 1 at the WPNSA © Ben Harris

Nacra 15 Winter Camp 1 at the WPNSA © Ben Harris

Day one of the first Nacra 15 training camp of the winter started with everyone rigged and ready for briefing by 9:30am at WPNSA. We were then split into two groups, the more experienced group of British Sailing Youth Team sailors being coached by Ben Harris with a weekend focused on racing and the two relatively new teams being looked after by Izzy Smith.

Everyone was launched by 11:30 with the BSYT boats heading out into the bay to do some practice racing with four windward leeward races and four Sail GP style races, while GBR126 and GBR074 were getting used to controlling the boats. As new teams to the class we focused on boat speed up and down wind and different settings and trim.

Everyone was back on shore by 3pm to sort boats out and get changed before debrief at 4pm where we discussed separately in our groups what went well and what we could improve on for the Sunday sailing, Ben and Izzy shared plenty footage from the day which was great!

Day two came around and everyone was excited to get back on the water, but first was the morning briefing where we discussed our goals for the day. The plan for the BSYT boats was a medal race which gave them double points, this really mixed up the leaderboard for the weekend's races and some match racing to help sharpen up starting skills. Meanwhile, 126 & 074 continued to get more confident with the boat and refined new skills.

Nacra 15 Winter Camp 1 at the WPNSA - photo © Roger Cerrato

The BSYT boats stayed near the harbour wall in 10-16 knots of breeze whilst we were also in the harbour learning more about lighter wind sailing. All boats then joined together for some races on a windward leeward course.

For the final race we swapped positions aboard for a crews race. This was great fun and as the breeze filled in nicely we had a blast downwind back to WPNSA with some crews noticeably more confident than others on the helm!

Everyone packed up their boats in the sun, then after a quick debrief from Ben and Izzy it was time to head home after an amazing weekend!

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