Last week, I ran a debrief on the recent St Malo race at RORC in London. There are a number of these race debriefs each year, the idea being to get people together and share ideas about what was successful for a particular race and (hopefully) for everyone to improve their performance going forward.

I did the race on ‘John Merricks II’ with a young crew from the British Keelboat Academy. The sailors know the boat inside out and worked incredibly hard during the race to keep the boat going in light and variable conditions. Mike Moxley, owner of the HOD Malice, also spoke giving input on conditions for the smaller boats. Though the details were somewhat different, the overall lessons learnt were very similar.

I have uploaded the presentation we used for the evening and you can view this here. Obviously, this will make most sense to people who were there for the evening, but hopefully others will find it useful as well and hopefully it will encourage more people to come to these events in future.