The Potomac River Sailing Association
cordially invites you to

Gary Jobson is a world-renowned sailor who has won many one-design championships, including the America’s Cup as tactician for Ted Turner in 1977. He has written more than a dozen books and produced more than a dozen videos on sailboat racing (For a list see www.jobsonsailing.com), is ESPN’s Sailing Analyst, and is a frequent contributor to Sailing World magazine.

This seminar will give us an insight into how Gary approaches sailboat racing. I know that each of us will come away with several ideas we can apply to our own racing that will be well worth the $25 fee.

In addition, Gary will just have returned from a 10-day stint in New Zealand covering the Louis Vuitton Series. With the LVC on Outdoor Life Network and the upcoming Americas Cup on ESPN, here is your chance to hear from someone who was there. Are you puzzled by the bizarre prestart period? Do you know what the danger zones are that the boats are trying to avoid? Do you know how the boat in the rear tries to control the boat in front?  How does the boat in front tries to escape that control?  And how about those starboard roundings? Are tactics the same as for our typical port roundings? This is a great opportunity to get an inside look at a type of sailboat racing most of us have little experience with—match racing.

Below is an abbreviated version of the topics that Gary covers in his lecture. However, we can ask him to emphasize particular topics and drop others, so when you call in or email your reservation, name a few topics that are of particular interest to you. 

Please email your intention to attend to Nabeel.Alsalam@verizon.net or call 703 356-6032 and leave a message. We need your name and phone number. If something comes up and you cannot attend, please be sure to cancel your reservation so that someone else may have your seat.

I.       Crew Organization

Introduction, Recruiting, Setting up a schedule, Crewing

II.      Reading the Wind

Sources of information, improving your eyesight, favored side, local information, windshifts, sailing to airspeed, current

III.    Tactics - Around the Racecourse

Prestart tuning, starts, upwind tactics, windward mark roundings, reaching, jibing, running, leeward mark roundings, fast finishes

IV.     Boathandling

Tacking, jibing, spinnaker sets and takedowns, accelerating and de-accelerating, storm sailing, steering, sailing by the lee

V.      Sail Trim

VI.     Rules

          Spirit, definintions, protests

VII.   Setting and achieving goals

Who is Gary Jobson?

                Gary Jobson, 52, is a world class sailor, television commentator, author and corporate advisor based in Annapolis, Maryland. Gary will be covering the America’s Cup 2003 for ESPN and Sailing World and covered the 2000 Olympics in Sydney for NBC.

                Gary has won many championships in one design classes, the America's Cup with Ted Turner in 1977, the infamous Fastnet Race, and many of the world's ocean races. In college he was an All American sailor three times and was twice named College Sailor of the Year (1972, 1973). In 1999 Jobson won the Nathanael G. Herreshoff Trophy, US Sailing’s most prestigious award. This trophy is awarded annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the sport of sailing in the United States.

                Jobson has been ESPN's sailing commentator since 1985 and produces over 30 shows per year. In 1988 Jobson won an Emmy for his coverage of yachting at the Olympic Games in South Korea. Gary has authored 13 sailing books and is Editor at Large of Sailing World and Cruising World magazines. His newest book is titled Fighting Finish: 2001-2002 Volvo Ocean Race.

                Over the past twenty-five years Gary has given over 1900 lectures throughout the world. He started his career as a sailing coach at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy. He is the National Regatta Chairman of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's sailing program, and in 1994 Jobson helped establish the first sailing team at Hampton University.

                Gary is also an active cruising sailor. He has led ambitious expeditions to Antarctica and Cape Horn. He and his family have cruised throughout the East Coast for the past six years. He serves on the Board of Directors for Fales Committee,  U.S. Naval Academy; Living Classrooms Foundation; Marinalife.com; The Mariners’ Museum; pyacht.com; Trigon Healthcare, Inc.; Volvo Ocean Race Organizing Committee; and the U.S. Sailing Foundation