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The Lockdown Coach - Book now with one of the worlds top coaches

by The Water Shed/Sail-World.com/nz 5 Apr 2020 05:26 PDT 6 April 2020
Dan Slater on his way to winning the 2019 OK Worlds, Wakatere Boating Club © Richard Gladwell / Sail-World.com

Dan Slater, a three time Olympian (Finn and 49er), America’s Cup Tactician/ Strategist and multiple World Champion is offering coaching sessions via ZOOM for four groups of sailors/classes during the Lockdown.

Dan is a very experienced and world class coach of multiple Youth, and Olympic class World and European Champions.

This is your opportunity to learn a few new things during Lockdown.

Dan will be running Zoom lectures on a range of different topics for different dinghy groups .

The lectures will be Monday - Friday (NZ Standard Time).

Optimist / P Class / Open skiff 9:30am-10:05am NZST Laser Radial /Laser Standard 10:15am-10:50am NZST 29er /420 11am-11:35 NZST OK/Finn and Zephyr 11:45am-12:20pm NZST

The cost will be NZ$75 for the week, and run for the next two weeks. If there is enough interest and good feedback we will continue.

If you would like to join please email with your name, email address, Ph number and group you would like to join.

We will send you a GST invoice with payment details.

Once payment is received you will need to download ZOOM if you don’t have it already, and we will send you a Meeting log in code.

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