• Tactics with Mark Rushall, including excerpts from his new book.
• Feeling the Speed with Adam Bowers, Sail, rig and foils made user-friendly.

• Safer Coaching - Defining the role of a coach.
• 5 Steps to Risk Assessment.

• Hiking Clinic and Trapeze Techniques by Harvey Hillary.
• Hiking with David Mellor.
• Training Skills with Steve Irish. How to get the best from yourself and your team.
• Spinnakers and Asymmetrics with Adam Bowers. Hoisting, handling and setting for top performance.
• 5 Golden Rules for Tactics with Mark Rushall
• Race Communications with Olympic medalist Joe Glanfield.
• Optimising your Performance with Duncan Truswell. Profiling Dartboard and Example calendar.
• The Science of Winning by Chris Draper.
• Starting with Steve Irish.
• Optimising your Race Training with Peter Walker.
• Effective Hiking - Fast and Healthy with David Mellor.
• Rules and Tactics with Rules Guru John Doerr. Keeping Clear Presentation. Giving Room Presentation.
• Predicting the Shifts - The Essentials of Weather with Fiona Campbell.

• Fitness for Sailing booklet
• Core Circuit Sessions

Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What safety boat to dinghy ratio should I plan for?

A: This is a common question and quite a difficult answer. Most of the details are in the Race Training and Event Management document:
http://www.rya.org.uk/WorkingWithUs/clubs/dutyofcare/

The basic answer is that there is not a set ratio. It would be impossible and impractical to set down 1 to 6 as at an inland lake with a force 2 you might be completely safe to run the coaching by walking around the lake ( e.g. West Kirby).

Conversely sailing a force 6 in the Solent with lots of chop might need 1 on 1. The club/coach is required to provide rescue cover that would 'reasonably' protect sailors from the dangers of sailing. Like all risk assessments it depends on: conditions, sailor's age, ability, type of boat, type of rescue boat, qualifications of rib drivers, etc.

The important thing is that you have evaluated your club, conditions and your racers and provided cover for them and written down those thoughts somewhere. e.g. Risk assessment.

Youths and beginners do required more cover because the likely hood is that they will capsize and this is detailed in the Race Training and Event Management document.

Q: What Insurance do I need?
A: Public Indemnity: this is the insurance that generally covers some one when they have a duty of care over others e.g. a coach running race training with sailors.

For the majority of coaches the answer is that they don't need a policy along as they follow some simple guidelines: Make sure that your coaching, first aid and powerboat certificates are valid.

If you are working at your own club then make sure that the club is happy that you are running race training and that they insurance will cover you activity. A simple e mail to the club secretary with a risk assessment will cover this.

For those that are working with at another club and are not sure about their insurance details then a cheap safety net is the Heath and Lambert policy is a good one to have. This applies to all RYA Affiliated clubs.
If you are running RYA squad training then you are covered by the RYA insurance.

If you are working abroad or launching from a slipway then the cheapest policy is offered by Sport Coach UK. The restriction is that you can't coach from the sailing boat, i.e. you need to be in a rib.

If you borrow a rib, make sure you get written permission to use it. This will insure that you are covered by their policy if do any injury or damage.

Feel free to call and discuss this and I might be able to give you a more specific answer.

(Answer by Alan Olive, RYA Coaching Development Manager 15/11/06)

If you have a general coaching questions you would like answered, or if you would simply like to send us your comments about coaching, please e-mail racing@rya.org.uk