Zielgruppe: Crews

How does team training work?

Hybrid, like almost everything we do. Ashore we work on roles, communication and decision paths, because for that a quiet room and a table beat twenty degrees of heel. On board we test whether it holds under pressure. Between and after, the support runs digitally. Whether we sail with you depends on availability and on […]

Why team training, when we are strong individually?

Because a crew is more than the sum of its sailors. What you are buying is not the individual head, it is what happens between the heads. A nervous tactician infects the calmest helm; a frantic bow tears up the best tactics.

What exactly do you train?

The shared rhythm. A crew that works well together has a shared resting pulse, and that can be trained like the trim of the boat. A crew wins not with the fastest boat, but with the calmest radio traffic on board.

Everyone on board carries a different load. Is that taken into account?

Yes: three roles, three tasks. The helm and the skipper carry the weight of decision and must not unload it onto the crew. The tactician and the navigator decide on incomplete information and have to let the decision go afterwards instead of dwelling on it. The crew on the sheets and the bow live on […]

When is this worth it for a crew?

Five occasions: Start stress. We can’t get our horsepower onto the start line. The mistake that tips the race. One fumble costs us not a boat length but the whole race. The newly assembled crew. We are strong individually but not yet a team. Conflict on board. It isn’t the wind slowing us down, it’s […]