The club was fortunate to secure the services of two of Australia's best Impulse class sailors, Murray Shaw and Stuart Quick, who generously donated their time to provide two days of tuition and on-water training.

The attendees were predominantly local sailors, but visiting participants travelled from Ballarat and Phillip Island to take part.

Saturday began with a morning presentation by Murray explaining the complexities of boat tuning and sail shape, followed by an afternoon of training exercises which included laps around a tight triangular course.

Perhaps it was the tightness of the course or the fact that everybody was concentrating a little too much on technique, but a number of minor collisions and mistakes occurred which prompted a frustrated coaching team to call everyone back to shore for a pep talk.

Following some half time instruction on sailing basics it was back to the water for the day's final practice session, where all sailors showed some improvement to the satisfaction of the trainers.

A freshening afternoon breeze resulted in several contenders for the annual Titanic award showing their capsize talents, with one standout effort by a sailor who seemed determined to defend his title by managing to invert his dinghy almost vertically, requiring a tow to extract the mast from the mud.

On Sunday morning Stuart Quick provided the instruction, concentrating on race starting tactics and procedures followed again by a series of sailing exercises.

After lunch a depleted field of boats and tiring sailors returned to the water for the weekly club race, keen to apply their new found knowledge.

Johno Knight and Andrew Pearce managed to stay upright to finish first and second, with Mark Knights rounding out the place getters.