Fine Tune Your Steering - Steering well is an art, and particularly steering well across a wide range of conditions is something that only the best have mastered through countless hours on the water.
Steering Position - Fine Tune Your Steering
It's important to have a steering position where you can see as much of the sails as possible and when...
Strive To Be Lucky - In memory of the great and eloquent Dr Walker who died on Monday aged 95.
Dr Stuart Walker
Luck, wrote longtime columnist Dr Stuart Walker (1923 – 2018), is fundamental, but a manageable element of every race.
When Paul Elvström raced with Aage Birch for the Dragon Gold Cup at Marstrand, Sweden, in 1958, he decided that...
Hailing for Mark Room is Not Required when one boat has rights at a mark.
Rule 18
Rule 18 (Mark-Room) begins to apply between two boats when the first one enters the zone at a mark. The rule says the outside or clear astern boat must provide mark-room.
Note that rule 18 never requires an inside or clear ahead boat to make...
This one’s a classic: Staying Out of Trouble at a Mark - If you’re the outside boat of a group approaching the leeward mark and blindly carry on with pace, you’ll sail extra distance in bad air, carry wide around the mark, and then exit in a terrible lane.
Slow Down: Staying Out of Trouble at a Mark
This is one...
With Special thanks to Mike Hobson – J Boats, Chesapeake USA. SAILING PRINCIPLES divided into Tactical and Philosophical.
TACTICAL - SAILING PRINCIPLES divided into Tactical and Philosophical.
Sail on the tack or gybe that points closer to the next mark.
Sail in clean air.
Sail toward, and in, the most wind pressure.
Keep manoeuvres to a minimum.
Form a game plan...
