Thank you for joining us each week to see our latest sailing education articles and videos. We’re glad that you find them helpful. We’re spending the week with family. See you next week. In the meantime, look around at some…

In this series of articles, we will introduce the key concepts of sailing a race from preparation to the starting sequence, buoy roundings and finishing. The target audience for this information is sailors that may have never competed in a…

In this article, we’ve summarized crewing tips shared by Olympians Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea of Roble-Shea Sailing and present them below with links to the full video content. These insights are a small fraction of the rich content provided…

Want better and easier ways to maintain your boat? Want to avoid myths that that can turn into costly errors? In this post, we cover a few maintenance tips and myths we’ve run across recently. Easy and Safe Hull Cleaning…

David Starck, sailing with his wife Jody, finished 4th in the U.S. Sailing C. of C. regatta in October 2022, held on Barnegat Bay. The event was held in MC Scows, a boat which they had never sailed before. Considering…

Rule 42, Propulsion, addresses permitted and non-permitted ways to affect the boat’s speed while racing. For this post, we assembled and organized all the available Rule 42 resources, including the rule, “official” interpretations, World Sailing cases, video examples, and commentary…

This is a comprehensive look at setting up a Melges 15 sailboat from PARTS delivery to putting on the SAILS to GO RACE. Yes. It’s LONG. We made the video because the other videos skipped over details that were, in…

We spoke with Eddie Cox from Melges Performance Sailboats in February 2022 at the Sarasota Winter Series event. The Melges 15 had just won the Sailing World Boat of the Year award! SailZing.com will be using the Melges 15 as…

Summary of racing sailing scoring notations and abbreviations used in racing sailing scoring along with scoring notes.

We interviewed Melges 15 ILYA Champion 2022, Jonathan Bailey from North Lake, WI about his race course notes from his win at Lake Winnebago.

How do you use gears tactically? In our post Learn to Change Gears, we discussed three primary gears to manage boat speed for the conditions: VMG gear for most conditions, footing gear to accelerate or in waves, and pointing gear…

Opti Preparation and Tuning Clinic with Opti setup and rig tuning advice from Marek Valasek, sponsored by the ILYA.

In several posts, we’ve claimed that top sailors tend to remember racing scenarios in more detail than average sailors. We decided to explore this further by reviewing sources on the importance of memory in performance. The Importance of Memory in…