ACI Sail ClubSwan 36 Training Center
Within its ClubSwan 36 training center, ACI Sail offers training, knowledge transfer and preparation services to all ClubSwan 36 sailboat owners, professional sailors, guests interested in purchasing the ClubSwan 36 sailboat, and all participants eager to acquire new sailing knowledge and skills.
The training center, located in ACI marina Split, Croatia is the first and exclusive ClubSwan 36 training center in the world. The training center is designed as a sailing center of excellence, as such unique in the world and reserved for all adrenaline seekers regardless of their level of sailing experience, from professional sailors to enthusiasts without experience. The training center is the all-encompassing place: you can find here the conditions, knowledge and equipment you need to overcome the greatest sailing challenges and refine your sailing skills at the world-class level.
ACI Sail ClubSwan 36 training camps
One of the services offered are ACI Sail ClubSwan 36 training series where clients have the opportunity to learn from top professionals – coaches and professional sailors of the Olympic pedigree, fitness trainers and many other accompanying professionals.
ClubSwan 36 training series are primarily intended for ClubSwan 36 sailboat owners, people interested in buying ClubSwan 36 sailboats, regatta sailors, and anyone interested in learning more about sailing and improving their skills.
BASIC INFORMATION
Training series are held at ACI Marina Split or on alternative location upon clients request in the duration of 4 days, during which trainees have the opportunity to take comprehensive sailing courses covering the areas of – sailboat preparation and trimming, sailboat handling, sail trimming, sailing strategies and tactics, starting strategies and many more.
The training is being held on training platforms consisting of a fleet of 6 ClubSwan 36 boats so that a maximum of 6 crews each consisting of 7 crew members can be organized at one time.
ACI Sail is conceived as a center of excellence where sailors eager for new knowledge will have the opportunity to learn on simple, fast and progressive sailboats under the supervision of a skilled and experienced team of experts.
ClubSwan 36 is a brand new product on the market that, with its innovative and modern foil assisted hull concept, seeks a whole new approach to trimming a complete boat, raising the standards of sailing to a completely new level.
Following this news, ACI Sail will provide all its attendants and guests with the most up-to-date information on new technologies, sailing styles and all the technical details that make the ClubSwan 36 so attractive.
THE MAIN OBJECTIVE
Within ACI Sail training series, the main learning objective is to prepare trainees for the situations they will certainly face at sea. For this purpose, we impart knowledge and deliver the training in professional Olympic sailing, which is the training process every professional sailor undergoes.
The training is focused on ClubSwan 36 sailboat owners, all those who consider becoming owners, professionals and amateur sailors, and in each situation is adapted and customized according to the level of knowledge and experience of each team or individual.
The mission of the program is to shorten the trainees learning time and to help them learn to anticipate and evaluate situations they face at sea throughout the entire program.
For sailors with higher levels of knowledge, a situational group training is prepared allowing them to practice and repeat the typical regatta sailing situations, thus actually perfecting themselves to the smallest details. All this takes place under the watchful eye of the experienced, sailboat trainers with the Olympic background who put a lot of effort, knowledge, and energy into the training and the transfer of knowledge.
To provide the best training experience for the trainees, all the equipment used is of the highest quality, and includes sails, sailing clothing, and safety equipment.
CLUBSWAN 36
As for the ClubSwan 36, it combines the latest technology in weight, stability and surface ratios, which has existed only in theory so far, all of them guaranteeing perfect handling, absolute safety and unimaginable speed while sailing.
Being the philosophy of excellence the basic guiding principle of the training, much attention has been paid to the choice of sails. The sails chosen are from the manufacturer “North Sails” with 3Di technology, which brought together all the best features of sails used in some of the largest and most respected regattas in the world. What makes it even better, those regattas were won by using them.
These are Americas Cup regattas, Volvo Ocean races, the Olympic Games and World Championships of various classes and categories.
THE PROGRAM
During the training series, much attention is focused on the protection equipment of participants exposed to external influences, such as the sun, sea, and wind, and each participant is provided with a self-inflating lifebuoy of the latest generation and extra accessories for night sailing.
Special emphasis in ACI Sail is placed on situational trainings, where trainees prepare and train for some of the most important situations and techniques used during regattas.
The training itself can be divided into recurring segments, but individual segments may occur once or twice a day during sailing, which ultimately means a lot of time spent sailing to bring them to perfection. It may sometimes take months and years of practice to perfect such techniques and maneuvers.
For this reason, in ACI Sail, such situations are first performed offshore, and then coordinated at sea by using specially segmented and pre-planned techniques.
During the training, the techniques are repeated 20-30 times in one day, making the trainees adopt rapidly the techniques to be able to act reflexively. The helmsman and the crew are ready to respond to any changes due to the training, the complete crew acts in harmony, having as a result an incredible speed of the sailboat, better positioning to the opponents and ultimately the placement on the regatta that satisfies the crew.
The participants will also undergo a “tuning guide”, which will help them to quickly master all the technical details of the sailboat and the adjustment of its components by actually doing it. Namely, each sailboat consists of many adjustable or trimmable elements. This refers primarily to the hull of a sailboat, rudder, sail, and crew all the way to moving ballast, which ultimately gives users the knowledge of putting the elements in the optimal condition in different circumstances – wind direction, waves, and crew weight.
This type of training provides a progressive learning curve for all current and future owners and users of the ClubSwan 36. This is a new type of sailboat, in which very few people have had the opportunity to sail, and there are numerous options for trimming and adjusting.
For the quality of education and gaining experience, each training session is recorded with a video camera. Subsequently, the trainees, together with the trainer, perform the analysis of the whole training and of individual elements.. Once the weaknesses have been identified extra attention is focused on the weaker elements followed by an additional training in subsequent sessions to correct the focal problems.
Within the training series, great emphasis is placed on the sailing strategy and tactics that sometimes takes years of experience to learn in practice. The reason, of course, is the slow nature of sailing itself.
For this reason, great care is taken to prepare sailors to understand tactical and strategic decisions and to make timely key decisions, which ultimately guarantee outstanding results.
The basis on which this knowledge is transferred is the Olympic sailing experience in which ACI Sail is highly experienced.
When it comes to strategic tactical decisions, a very important factor is the knowledge of racing meteorology, which is the deciding factor for achieving results, regardless of the type of sailing involved. Consequently, ACI Sail trains its trainees to better understand wind and other weather conditions and make better decisions on the water.
OUR MISSION
Ultimately, ACI Sail’s mission is the complete satisfaction of every trainee, the highest quality service and maximum timesavings.
Accordingly, we provide each trainee with an All-inclusive service package that includes transportation, the airport pick-up, hotel accommodation, complete training, food and drinks, and related amenities.
In addition to that, we provide a complete hospitality service for your entourage and a helpful service individually created that includes a planning of a eventful day as well as logistics support.
