There are a lot of questions asked on this Forum that would be answered if you would just consider taking a Rick White's Sailing Seminar.
One is scheduled for Apr 18-23 in the Keys. There is a couple hours of chalk talk per day and tons of sailing.
We shoot a lot of video so you can see exactly what your errors are.
And if you think you are too good and beyond a seminar, I just ran the races for the Tornado NAs with several Olympic Medalists in attendance and saw a ton of errors while doing mark roundings.
No one is beyond needing more training. Even Randy took the course prior to his last Silver Medal.
For more info, just go to our website at sailingseminars.com or send me an email at rick@catsailor.com
Your learning curve will straight off the top of the chart.
Rick
Rick,
What about on the other end. Is the seminar too advanced for a relatively new sailor (six months +/-)? Please Email me pricing, and info etc. I'd love my learning curve to stop being such a steep climb!!
Thanks
Ever do any out West?
His seminars are great for a beginning sailor. You'll get your tacks and gybes down pat, and those are really the toughest, most critically-timed maneuvers you ever have to pull. Unless you're trying to do some free-style cat sailing 
Also, you would get a good idea of how triangle races are run, which is very confusing to a new sailor.
The courses are excellent for both ends of the scale. And it is really funny to watch during the week. The top sailors are around the drill course much farther ahead of the novice sailors.
By the end of the week the novice sailors are right there and sometimes even in the lead.
Keep in mind that advanced sailor is also getting faster, its just that the novice guys had less to UN-learn and learn much faster.
I have had many national caliber sailors take the course and tell me that there was so much they didn't know. On the other hand, you don't here that from the novice sailors -- but on the other hand, they will have gained in one week what most of us have taken decades to learn.
And there is lot to learn.
As for the West Coast, I have done a good many out there. We did two of them before the Midwinters West, one near the SF Airport and one in Bodega Bay, one in Seattle.., one at Rocky POint, Mexico, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, and that is just the cat seminars.
Have also done over a dozen for the Corsair crowd and have one coming up in April in San Francisco at Helms Corsair.
I do them anywhere, but I don't pick the spots. The spots pick me.
To have one in your area is like putting on a regatta. There is a whole page on that on my website at http://www.sailingseminars.com and click on How To Host. You can set it up so you and your fleet can even make a few bucks for the club's coffers.
Thanks for asking,
Rick
Hi Rick
What are the plans for next year.
I think some warm weather might be a good idea next year. This year is already planned.
Schedule for next year is wide open. We usually do a Laser/Sunfish Week and a Catamaran Week in mid to late April in the Florida Keys every year and a Wave Only seminar in the Keys just before the Wave Nationals. Those are our annuals.
After that, wide open.
Rick