How to Ensure A Good Start
Following a few basic steps and implementing a pre-start routine ensures consistently good starts. Here’s your go-to primer.
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Following a few basic steps and implementing a pre-start routine ensures consistently good starts. Here’s your go-to primer.
The feel on the tiller extension is your direct link to the boat’s performance, so how you hold it is more important than you might think.
Repeating some basic steps will get you blazing through your tacks.
Mike Ingham explains the subtle nuances of the Racing Rules of Sailing and how they apply at rounding marks.
The wind across your sails is dynamic, so too must be your sail trim. Pro sailor Erik Shampain explains the fundamentals of active headsail trimming.
Andrew Palfrey explains the primary function of key controls in a way that applies to a broad range of boats, using the build of two International 5.5 Metre Class yachts in Cowes, UK, to help illustrate his points.
The same-old can produce the same results, so consider how to change your sailing focus to improve in new ways.
In this edition of Sailing World Roundtable, Sailing World sat down with Whittier Trust to discuss questions to ask and key points to keep in
Sailing World Racing Editor Mike Ingham explores the rules to know for a clean start.
Sailing World Racing Editor Mike Ingham walks us through the basic mainsail trim adjustments with deep dive in into flow and feel.
The bigger the fleet, the harder it can be to score consistent top finishes, but a couple of young 420 aces show how it can be done.
Sailing World racing editor Mike Ingham provides the essential trimming techniques for the symmetric spinnaker, with tips on trim, pole height and onboard communications.
Following a few basic steps and implementing a pre-start routine ensures consistently good starts. Here’s your go-to primer.
The feel on the tiller extension is your direct link to the boat’s performance, so how you hold it is more important than you might think.
Repeating some basic steps will get you blazing through your tacks.
Mike Ingham explains the subtle nuances of the Racing Rules of Sailing and how they apply at rounding marks.
The wind across your sails is dynamic, so too must be your sail trim. Pro sailor Erik Shampain explains the fundamentals of active headsail trimming.
Andrew Palfrey explains the primary function of key controls in a way that applies to a broad range of boats, using the build of two International 5.5 Metre Class yachts in Cowes, UK, to help illustrate his points.
The same-old can produce the same results, so consider how to change your sailing focus to improve in new ways.
In this edition of Sailing World Roundtable, Sailing World sat down with Whittier Trust to discuss questions to ask and key points to keep in
Sailing World Racing Editor Mike Ingham explores the rules to know for a clean start.
Sailing World Racing Editor Mike Ingham walks us through the basic mainsail trim adjustments with deep dive in into flow and feel.
The bigger the fleet, the harder it can be to score consistent top finishes, but a couple of young 420 aces show how it can be done.
Sailing World racing editor Mike Ingham provides the essential trimming techniques for the symmetric spinnaker, with tips on trim, pole height and onboard communications.
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