The training team at Ripon Sailing Club have been very busy over the summer running RYA courses for both adult and junior members. As a result there was a bumper turn out of 28 sailors for the Back to School sessions on Saturday 6th September, with almost all of the club's junior training boats booked out for the day.
Fortunately several of the club's youth sailors had volunteered to come down and coach, which is always popular with the juniors as "parents are too boring". The Racing (red) group were therefore very happy to head off down the narrows to the North lake with two of the young coaches to spend the morning working on improving their roll tacks and working on start drills.
The Intermediate (white) group has grown so much that it had to be split in two, with Oppies in one group and Toppers and Teras in the other. Both groups were working on improving their upwind sailing during the first part of the morning session, and followed that up with taking turns practising how to come alongside the jetties.
After a quick snack break several of the Beginner and Intermediate Oppy sailors decided it was time for some capsize practice, while the Tera and Topper sailors preferred to keep sailing for as long as possible. After eventually persuading even the keenest sailors (and swimmers) that it was time to stop and pack up the pizza order was taken and the sailors headed to the club house to finish off the day with an evening of pizza and board games.
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