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SAIL IN A NEW
Left/above: the most dominant win of a round of the 2019 TP52 Super Series? You betcha… By winning six of the nine completed races at the last regatta of this year’s series in Porto Cervo and, with five victories on the trot, Takashi Okura’s Japanese team – as usual coached by Rod Davis – finished with less than half the points of runner-up and 2019 Super Series overall champions Azzurra. A proper thrashing, in fact… Sled, including tactician Adam Beashel, strategist Murray Jones and Davis’s own Olympic silver medal Star crew Don Cowie trimming mainsheet, had found a new heavy-air gear by the time they arrived in Sardinia; mutters about Okura’s team having fresher sails at the last event were not unconnected to their rivals going into the winter well aware that the first 2020 event is in Cape Town… another windy venue. Oops
distracted with non-sailing problems. Don’t fester: that is when you hang around just to be there, nothing to do but hang around. Don’t get in the ‘race zone’ too early or stay in it too long. Have only limited time in the race zone when striving for that perfect performance. Expecting everything to go according to plan, it won’t. Following the herd. Figure out your own path and stick to it. Back yourself. Believe you are right and then go out and prove it. That is the great thing about not having a plan B. You have to make plan A work. Be proactive, not reactive. Anticipate what is going to happen next, on the water, on shore, with people, and make moves to capitalise on it. As in now. Out-think your competition, don’t out-grunt them. The guys with the Midas touch fight for every inch. They find those inches all around them. One inch at a time, they (and their team mates) never stop looking for and finding them. It becomes the difference between ducking a port tack boat or crossing it. The difference between having an overlap at the mark or rounding behind. All those inches become the difference between winning and losing.
Lowell North used to say, ‘Just worry about building the best sails in the world; making money will come later, or not, but it only starts with building the best sails.’
When you stop thinking about winning, and start thinking about how you sail the best you can, and how you sail even better next time, you start thinking like a B-teamer. B-teamers are the guys who didn’t make the show pony team (the A-team). B-teamers just look for ways to be better. They don’t feel the pressure of expectations, they just want to get out there and race every chance they can. More often than you’d think they beat the A-team. They always look forward, and enjoy the racing more.
You want to get to the point that people think you make winning easy? Don’t dare think expectations, winning or trophies; think about how you do your role perfectly; get the basics right first and fight for those inches.
Then move forward from there. It’s a win-win. You will do better. And you will enjoy it more!
SEAHORSE 35
The leading manufacturer of yachting ropes reinvents itself!
Those who have a lot to say should keep it short. This begins with our brand name. FSE Robline becomes Robline. Yet, one thing remains unchanged: experienced rope making experts set the standards in cooperation with successful pro sailors from Olympic champion crews or the German Sailing Bundesliga. The outcome is innovative, state-of-the-art cordage for both competitive and recreational sailors.
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Robline @ METSTRADE 19-21 November 2019 / Booth 01.265
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