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* When in first protect air if you are  still close to the fleet…however if you have a greater distance from fleet sail right at the mark.
o Talk about ways u can protect air and how crews should constantly be communicating to skippers about what is happening behind them
* Mid fleet…take opponents air in front of you by going higher... talk about the ways of protecting and taking air…
o Don’t always trust the person in first for going the right way around the course crews look at the wind patterns for puffs and shifts for favored sides of course..  show examples of this where each side of course may be favored.
* Talk about centerboard position and why it should be up.
* In very light wind conditions reaches in 420’s  are faster then dead down wind
* Dead down wind skippers hold jib out around shroud while crew stand stradeling centerboard trunk holding boom giving the boat windward heel
* Check for weed!
* Weigth placement light vs. heavy
* Waves
* Heavy air use a little more centerboard less windward heel for resisting death rolls.
* Boomvang and Cunningham should be loosened to open up the leech of the sail to collect more wind. Remember to tighten when heading back upwind
* Watch ahead for mark rounding and watch out for pinwheels show how to avoid a pinwheel.
* Mark rounding Wide and tight so you don’t loose that boat right behind you
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* First reach protect wind but just try to hold position don’t get too cocky and head very high in hope of gaining places inless your positive you can head high and get back down. Otherwise you’ll be on the outside of a pinwheel and loose many boats
* At jib mark hold position and through jib immediately head a little high to avoid the person right behind heading above and taking all your air.
* Here is where you gain boats head high but always have your crew paying attention to all the boats around you so that if a boat heads low it doesn’t beat you to the mark and you have no room on it