3 Golden Rules for Tactics in Dinghy Racing with Mark Rushall

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Oh how I chuckled when I heard the first sentence: “most of us are able to....” I even turned round to check that I still had the book in the bookcase. Yep, it’s still there untouched since I sold the Laser two years ago....
One to get the racers gnashing. A good friend and I used to club race his RS Vision about eight years ago. It was the usual mixed handicap club fleet with a fixed shore marked line and mainly harbour marks for windward/wing and bottom marks. Our strategy consisted of seeing what the best guys were doing then having a chat about globalisation and the bigger things going on in the world.
At the 1 minute gun the question would be asked of me, the heavyweight crew option, “so what are we going to do then?” Usually a “discussion” ensued and we sort of hit the line about 5 seconds adrift and followed the procession down the harbour. If we played the tide well we could get to mid table mediocrity (to use the footballing euphemism) but mainly if you were good and light you hammered us into the ground.
I remember reading that strategy book till the print fell off. It never made the slightest bit of difference. After 40 years of racing I could still never be on the right side of the shift at the start. I could tell when it shifted but I had that nagging feeling I was always tacking into negativity each time. The RS 600 disappeared into the distance, along with the RS400 (much beloved of the shouty husband and wife crew). We struggled on in the RS Vision with the occasional capsize and once me falling out in December whilst my helm managed to keep it upright for about 300 yards as he was trying to tack and bring it back to me. You’re an awfully lonely figure when the race (and the safety boat....) is nowhere near you and the water temperature is 6°.
For those new to racing, honestly it’s not all like that... But club racing will be “same old faces” and the younger good guys will break out into national squads.
And maybe, just maybe, some of you reading this will chuckle and go, “yep that happened to me”.

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