Sailing Tips

Published on FEB, 2018 2004 Olympian Carol Cronin reviews how the balance of ego and communication contributes to the functioning of a successful team. Listen to Your Teammate(s). At a recent Snipe regatta, Kim Couranz and I counted up the number of lines we each control. Her total? Sixteen (eight on port tack, eight on starboard). My total? One. Giving Kim all...

    We all need upwind sailing tips and who better to tell us how other than Noel Drennan Noel is well known across the world in sailing circles and has done and achieved more than most sailors could ever dream of in their lifetime and therefore is imminently qualified to give us tips about how to get faster upwind. Classes he has...

. We need to employ the best tactical foresight out on the racecourse for staying out of trouble. We must be observant otherwise we can still often get ourselves into a jam. To that end, I have outlined below some tips to enable you to dig your way out. Ducking a Competitor: The main reason that you have to duck is to...

. 5 Sailing Tips Tip 1: Stay Focused A lapse in concentration at a critical time in a race can cost you several places. This sounds obvious, it is impossible to give 100 per cent concentration all the time.  If sailing in a crewed boat don't let conversations wander away from the race. This is just as important for the time on the...

Copying The Champions In Your Fleet - To someone unfamiliar with our sport, two identical boats should sail at the same speed given equal crews, the same wind, and the same wave conditions. Small Changes Can Make a Huge Difference What an outsider may not realise is that small changes in identical equipment can make big differences in boat speed and...

  Racing Tips to Improve Your Sailing. When you want to kick your sailing performance up to the next level, many sailors think first of spending money – buying new sails, replacing gear, or even buying a new boat. In most cases, a number of small and easy improvements in your technique can yield great results using the gear that you...

  Tips from Sailing Greats and legends. CORRECTION TO LAST WEEK'S BLOG. In my haste to send out my already late Blog, during the paring down to make the article short and easy to read I eliminated the essence of  "shifting Gears in a Lull" what should have been included follows in bold italics. Bearing off to restore luff telltale flow in a...

Tips For Races and Regatta Sailing - Watching the Olympic sailing, with the silky smooth boat handling and tactics it got me thinking about the basic things that the rest of us at all levels below the Olympians must have instinctively dialled in. In a multi-race series consistency is probably the big one but there are a number of other...

Photo by Jamie Morrison Sailing races are lost not won and it's the competitors who make the fewest mistakes that end up on top. The mistakes that we make don't go away on their own and as sailors we tend to make the same mistakes week after week. Making notes during races about what worked and what didn't will ensure that...

This Week a bit of Fun - Top 20 Sailing Superstitions Because of the dangers faced by sailors and fishermen, there are countless superstitions around safety and luck on the sea. Some seem a little strange today. While most no longer apply, we're guessing that some still linger in sailors’ minds. 20. Re-naming a boatIt is bad luck to change the...