Rolling Starts

By Doug Peckover

• Purpose: build muscle memory for starts, good warm-up
• Duration: 10 minutes
• Setup: regular starting line with an optional mark 100 yards to windward

Operation:

1. One minute sequence with the starter counting down every 10 seconds.
2. After the start, everyone is called back 10 seconds into the race.
3. If a windward mark is used, and at the starter's discretion (say, when some good sailors get a bad start), no one is called back and the race is for real. Every start could be real – no one knows. The course is a simple windward-leeward.
4. Between starts, people then have just a few seconds to set up for the next.
5. We can get up to 10 practice starts in 10 minutes - very intense.