Oakcliff Quaranteam Clinegatta
The US Sailing Match Race Championship committee has cancelled the qualifier series for the 2020 US Match Race Championship and is accepting requests for invitation by resume. You can request an invitation here.
Hybrid Clinic Days June 4-5 with coaches Dave Perry and Jacon Mayer
Racing June 6-7
This regatta is currently full. You can register for the digital clinic only below.
Clinic Info:
The Clinegatta format is a wonderful way to work on your teamwork and hone your skills against top notch competition and an opportunity to race in the Match 40s, the boats used for the Oakcliff International and the Thompson Cup (both part of the Grand Slam Series and World Match Race Tour 2020). The event will not only be thrilling for each team, but also very useful to teams trying to make it into the next tier of match racing.
This clinic will be a hybrid format with online instruction sessions and on-the-water drills with video recording for the debrief. The current schedule is as follows:
Thursday June 4: Online Sessions Via Zoom
09:30-11:30- Match 40 Boathandling
12:30-14:30- Match 40 Boatspeed
15:00-17:00- Match Race Strategy, Tactics and "shaking off the rust"
Friday June 5: Practice and De-brief
11:00-14:00- Drills on the water for Regatta Participants
18:00- Digital Debrief of video from drills - Available for all clinic participants
Click below to register for the online clinic only:
More about your Coaches:
Dave Perry
- Professional Sailor
- Coach / Consultant
- Rules Expert
- Author of three books on racing:
- - Winning in One Designs
- - Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing
- - Dave Perry’s 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes
- - 2015, 2011, 2008, 2006 & 1982 U.S. Match Racing Champion (POW Bowl)
- - 2010 Toyota International Match Race for the Detroit Cup winner
- - 2009 Seawanhaka Cup winner
- - 2009 North American representative at ISAF Nations Cup
- - 2007 South American Match Racing Champion
- - 1998 & 1992 Knickerbocker Cup winner
- - 1984 & 1983 Congressional Cup winner
- - 1991-1992, Rules Advisor for Il Moro di Venezia, America’s Cup Challenger
- - 2006-2007, Rules Advisor and Afterguard Coach for Victory Challenge (Swedish America’s Cup Challenge)
- - 2011-2017, Rules Advisor for Artemis Racing, Challenger of Record for the America’s Cup
- - 2008 & 2012 Rules Advisor for U.S. Olympic Sailing Team
- - Coach for the USSTAG Women’s Match Race Team and for Sally Barkow’s team in particular
- - US Sailing National Judge
- - Chairman of the US Sailing Appeals Committee & Member US Sailing Board of Directors
- - National Champion in Collegiate Sailing (Yale), Ideal 18’s and Tasar’s
Jacon Mayer
No zealot like a convert, they say. Jacon was a latecomer to sailing, learning at 18 on an outdoor semester. He sailed at the University of Vermont and at Wesleyan University, but didn't become a proper racer until he camped out at Oakcliff and refused to leave. Sensing an opportunity to combine his experience as a NOLS instructor with the resources of Oakcliff, Jacon designed the student programs, pitched Dawn and the board, and became Oakcliff's first Student Program Director in 2012. He has since worked as the sailing director at various fancy yacht clubs and some small non-profits, but eventually left professional sailing to spend more time climbing mountains. He's kept his hand in by coaching high-school team racing (really just three match races simultaneously) for the last seven years.