RNZYS Level 2 Race Crew Training / Elliott 7
The course format is 5 sessions conducted fortnightly on Tuesday evenings with a mix of racing and training sessions. The sessions are conducted alongside our Tuesday afternoon Sprint Racing series. Following sailing, we are invited to join the club in the Dinghy Locker for race day prizegiving, with food and drink specials. The course is a mixture of theory and practical sailing delivered by RNZYS Coaches.
Who should do this course?
This course is designed for people with some existing sailing knowledge (e.g have completed a Level 1 Learn to Sail Course or perhaps done some Friday Rum Racing) who wish to improve their skills to take a more active role within our club racing fleet. Help is available for sailors to find teams to join, following the course. The last session of the course will be joining in the evening racing with students being encouraged to head to the dinghy locker for the prize giving afterwards.
When is it?
4:30pm – 8:30pm
- 3rd February
- 17th February
- 3rd March
- 17th March
- 31st March
Course outcomes
- Rig up a spinnaker/gennaker
- Know all of the crew positions: – Bowman, Trimmer and mainsheet trimmer.
- Understand the racing rules.
- Understand racing tactics.
- Learn to trim and gybe spinnakers/gennakers
- Gain valuable racing experience.
About the boats
This course is completed using the RNZYS’ fleet of Emirates Team New Zealand Elliott 7 keelboats. The fleet consists of 10 identical 7-meter yachts which in addition to Learn to Sail courses are used for the Squadron’s Mastercard Youth Training Programme, National and International match racing events and National fleet racing regattas.
The fleet has been a key element in the development of NZ’s vast talent of young sailors to national and international elite keelboat sailing culminating for many in successful careers.
As the boats are evenly matched and easy to sail, they provide exciting yachting for all levels of abilities from beginners to experienced yachties.
The fleet is professionally managed to ensure all users gain maximum benefits from these great yachts and berthed very close to RNZYS at Westhaven allowing easy access to the ideal sailing playground of Auckland’s Waitemata harbour.