Do you experience more mistakes sailing with crew on board than when solo? And more mistakes with more crew?

I do, and apparently so did Ted Turner when skippering for the America's cup.

blog.arribasail.com/2015/05/ted-turners-law.html

On the the subject of crew It takes a fair while for a group of people to work well together as a crew and learn the idiosyncrasies of the gear on the boat

On the boat I race on we took about a full season before the 5 of us started to work well together and not long after this happened sickness and other commitments ment we lost 2 of the blokes

When we get new crew on the boat the mistakes by all seem to increase perhaps because you are distracted from your job when you are watching them and helping them to learn their roles

Regards Don

Does Ted have a different equation for bringing boats into marina berths. I find this is one of the places things go pear shaped real quick with inexperienced crew. Most times I would rather they sat still with their hands in their pockets. Then they can see how it's done. Verbal directions don't work as well no matter how loud you say them.

Donk107 said..

On the the subject of crew It takes a fair while for a group of people to work well together as a crew and learn the idiosyncrasies of the gear on the boat

On the boat I race on we took about a full season before the 5 of us started to work well together and not long after this happened sickness and other commitments ment we lost 2 of the blokes

When we get new crew on the boat the mistakes by all seem to increase perhaps because you are distracted from your job when you are watching them and helping them to learn their roles

Regards Don

Just thought I would put my original comments in context

Although experienced crew is great , I think that as far as racing goes a reliable learner is probably more valuable than a unreliable experienced person

If someone is prepared to turn up for each race they will soon get the hang of it and you don't have to go chasing crew at the last moment

We all had to start somewhere (I still make lots of stuff ups) and willing and reliable crew are hard to find

Regards Don