SLAM Sailing Centre
SLAM Sailing Centre
Hebe Haven Race Management Course
Words ARO Karina O’Carroll
Congratulations to all the newly Qualified RYA Regional Race Officers, who took part in Rob Lambs RYA intensive Race Management Training Course during July.
We look forward to having you all more involved within the Race Management of the Club in the coming months.
At the end of July, Robert Lamb, Director of SolentXtra Race
Management, ISAF International Race Officer and Lead Race
Management Instructor for GBR, led a 16-hour seminar on Race
Management 101, the equivalent to the RYA Regional Race
Management Seminar for 22 ready-to-learn ROs, sailors and
support crew.
For someone like myself—with little actual race experience and,
to be totally honest, not knowing the difference between a P
flag and an N flag, which way the wind or tide was going to
shift me and what on earth an offset marker was—I was a bit
apprehensive to say the least, but keen to learn something new
that would improve my ability to volunteer with the Club and keep
me out on the water!
Having done a few stints on the HHYC committee boat as ARO
mainly recording times and boat classes, this new material quickly
began to fill numerous gaps in my knowledge. Robert was able
to succinctly answer numerous questions from our group, deliver
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