A few more interesting ones we have done:

*** 2 gates, 2miles apart, set approx. 45 degrees across the eye of the wind. The gates are 25' wide. You have to enter between them and you can exit however you want. Makes for quite race. Three boats wide entering the gate... ha ha ha

*** The oval. Setup 10 bouys in an oval shape about 1/2mile in diameter. Some guys sail along the bouys, some sail out and come back on fast reaches. Gets interesting with shifty wind. 10 laps a race.

*** The "Swap Meet"... Two-boat teams, each with a skipper and crew. Simple A-C-A-C finish, but every rounding of the C-mark, you have to swap crew on the water, on the fly.


I know the traditional setup is to attempt to test a sailor on all points of sail to make them better sailors. I am just not big on tradition when it gets in the way of variety.