{"id":238,"date":"2025-08-06T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:43:34","slug":"5-expert-tips-how-to-recover-from-a-bad-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"5 Expert Tips: How to recover from a bad race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even the best can\u2019t win all the time. Terry Hutchinson talks to Andy Rice about how to turn a bad race into an opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You learn more from your mistakes than from your successes. But when you\u2019ve had a bad result, how do you get past the negative emotion and start turning that into a positive to take forward into your next race?<\/p>\n

Terry Hutchinson<\/a> has been grappling with this challenge for more than four decades. He says he\u2019s still learning. Even for someone of Terry\u2019s deep experience at the top of the sport, every day brings up new scenarios and new lessons, sometimes painful but always useful if processed in the right way.<\/p>\n

But how to learn those lessons and improve teamwork without resorting to finger pointing and ending up in the blame game? It\u2019s a tough job but it\u2019s vital to the overall mission, not to mention making sure everybody is enjoying the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood communication creates clarity,\u201d says Terry. \u201cHow do we communicate so that we keep our focus on the details and the process of racing well? The goal must be clear decision making without emotion. When you can make a decision without any emotion, you tend to make a higher percentage decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Easier said than done in the heat of battle, which is why you need to read and absorb Terry\u2019s best five tips for rallying the team after a bad outing on the race course.<\/p>\n

Own your mistakes<\/h2>\n

When training recently on the TP52<\/a> we had a boat handling mistake which ended up with the spinnaker going underneath the bow \u2013 the worst possible thing that can happen.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t an error on the bow, it was a steering error, and I pointed this out to the helmsman, and he got it. It\u2019s not about attacking anybody, it\u2019s simply that the only way we learn from these situations is by acknowledging them and working out what we\u2019d do differently next time.<\/p>\n

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