Nowadays, Indian coach Dipesh Nerpagare is participating in Alexandria International Sailing Championship with his team Aquamarine Sailing Club that comprises sailors from India. The team was formed recently and it did not take them long to start taking part in international events.
To know more about Dipesh and his team, SEE interviewed the Indian coach.
After spending one year with Sea Cadets, Dipesh chose to start sailing in 2004 (at the age of 12) and he did so in his home city, Mumbai, because of his passion for swimming and for the sea. 2006 witnessed his first National Sailing Championship. At the age of 17 he was advised to start coaching and he did do that at local clubs.
"I was motivated to go on with coaching when in 2013 one of the girls, whom I was training in one of the states outside Mumbai, achieved good results and won a medal in one of India's national championships," Dipesh told SEE, adding "When it comes to coaching, people initially do not trust you prove you are clever."
Later, Pete Conway, India's national sailing team's former chief coach chose Dipesh to be the team's assistant coach.
"Pete Conway saw my passion and enthusiasm about the sport. He told me your approach needs to be more systematic and I am going to teach you so. He trained me for six months. Afterward, I spent three years working with Pete (2014, 2015, and 2016) at the Indian Sailing Federation," said Dipesh.
In 2016, Dipesh once more assisted Pete in Indonesia where they both coached the team of East Java (a state in Indonesia) for around seven months to take part in Indonesia's National Games.
Afterward, he arrived in India where he established a club, called Aquamarine Sailing, along with Amish Ved and Umesh Naiksatam, in 2018. The club's team, currently is participating in Alexandria's international event, started sailing in February 2019.
Dipesh said, "What really matters is for my team to see how good sailors are. Then my sailors are going to automatically follow their path."
Dipesh's current plan is to train sailors capable of competing in the future Olympic Games.
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