In January this year I went to a talk at the Papercourt Sailing Club by Steve Cockerill of Rooster Sailing called “The Boat Whisperer”. It was an enthusiastic demonstration aided by Steve’s DVD footage and a scale model of a Laser dinghy, in which he told the majority of the sailors in the room where they were going wrong. It wasn’t a lot wrong, just a bit and the information was delivered just like someone sitting with you and gently mentioning “why don’t you try this?”.
Steve is a enthusiastic and successful sailor, and, having won the following in 2007
- Graduate National Champion
- Streaker National Champion
- Laser Radial National Champion
- RS300 National Champion
- Rooster 8.1 National Champion
- Laser Master Inland Champion
Steve is very qualified to give this talk.
All of which got me thinking. Having spent many years working on different sorts of software development projects and for a variety of company types and sizes, I have a head full of tried and tested ideas that are easy to put in practice and can dramatically improve the software being developed. So I’ve put this blog together so that you can benefit from these ideas too. Think of it as someone sitting by you quietly saying “have you tried this?”.
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If you sail a dinghy and wonder why you lose control on occasions, I highly recommend either Steve’s talk if you can get to it or alternatively his DVD set there’s a YouTube preview below:
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