Guide to Tactical Gate Roundings
A leeward gate rounding, especially a crowded one, provides opportunities to pass boats and set up for the next leg.
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A leeward gate rounding, especially a crowded one, provides opportunities to pass boats and set up for the next leg.
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Your onboard sailing video can be more than sizzle-reel stuff for your social media feeds. You can also use it to eliminate any uncertainty about why and when you’re slow—or better yet, fast and winning races.
Windward-mark approaches and offset-mark exits should be part of your developing playbook of race-winning tactics. Do them well, and you’ll realize big gains.
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Mike Ingham explains the subtle nuances of the Racing Rules of Sailing and how they apply at rounding marks.
A leeward gate rounding, especially a crowded one, provides opportunities to pass boats and set up for the next leg.
Avoiding wind shadows is an important part of your downwind strategy. Where are the shadows and how do you avoid them? Mike Ingham explains the essentials of avoiding bad air downwind.
Coiling and flaking running rigging properly is an important step to ensuring it runs freely when you it to. Erik Shampain shares his tips.
With modern sail design and hardware technology, ocean racing teams have more versatility with their sail inventories. Here’s how one team developed a winning inventory for the 2022 Bermuda Race.
A world-class sailing destination, the BVI also offer spectacular scuba diving. Here’s what it’s like to combine both in these fair isles.
Sailing World Racing Editor Mike Ingham explains how to develop a second-beat strategy before rounding the leeward mark or gate.
Your onboard sailing video can be more than sizzle-reel stuff for your social media feeds. You can also use it to eliminate any uncertainty about why and when you’re slow—or better yet, fast and winning races.
Windward-mark approaches and offset-mark exits should be part of your developing playbook of race-winning tactics. Do them well, and you’ll realize big gains.
Two recent accidents have forced sailing clubs, classes and individuals to look closer at their exposure and coverage.
Following a few basic steps and implementing a pre-start routine ensures consistently good starts. Here’s your go-to primer.
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.
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