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2021 Fleet 1 Awards

Unfortunately this year’s Fleet 1 dinner and awards ceremony was again cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic…but we still have some hardware to bestow! So we’ll again have to hand out these honours virtually – check out this year’s winners:

In case you missed it...

Alex Fox wrote up a great regatta report from this year's Canadian Championships in Cowichan Bay, published in the October edition of Pacific Yachting magazine. Check out the full article HERE for a pretty great perspective on the racing. Thanks Alex!



(editor's note: this makes me look forward to next year's North American Championships in Nanaimo, nothing like big-fleet one design racing!)
Racing Concept of the Month #4

The “racing concept of the month” articles are way of sharing the general racing knowledge that has been developed over the decades in the Martin 242 fleet – this is the fourth of a series. All are loosely based on the excellent content in this article by Michael Clements. This article is also inspired by some math done by 4-time M242 NA’s winner Matt Alexander.

VMG!

The downwind leg in a Martin 242 is all about Velocity Made Good – VMG. So, what are we even talking about? What is it? How does it work? How can we use this secret power to win more races? Most of us understand this concept intuitively, but it’s time to have some fun and dig into the details…