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The Lockdown Coach - Book now for Saturday with one of the world's top coaches

by The Water Shed/Sail-World.com/nz 23 Apr 2020 03:24 PDT 23 April 2020
Luke O'Connell (578) and Dan Slater (562) contest the lead - Symonite OK World Championships - Day 1, February 10, 2019 © Richard Gladwell

Three lectures in the Lockdown Coach series - starting SATURDAY 25th on Masts and Sails targeting the Finn ,OK and Europe Dinghy .

Dan Slater has a vast experience developing Rigs and Sails for these classes with multiple World Championship Medals and in most cases using his own developed masts and sails.

Some topics of discussion:

• How the free standing mast works and what bend characteristics do different things in performance. • What do the bend numbers mean. • How to get a sail for your needs and make it fit your mast. • What sail shape changes do different things.

The cost for the three part series is NZ$150

The talks will be on ZOOM Starting Saturday 25th April for 3 nights in a row at 7.30pm NZ time ,5.30pm Australian time and 9.30am European time.

Payments can be made on PayPal or bank transfer and details will be sent once you register to dan@nzwatershed.co.nz with Name, email, Class of boat.

PLEASE REGISTER BEFORE THE END OF THE DAY FRIDAY.

You will be sent an invoice with payment details and a Meeting invite.

Lectures will be done live on Zoom and available if you can’t watch live.

I Look forward to hearing from you.

Dan.

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