Rule 42, Propulsion, addresses permitted and non-permitted ways to affect the boat’s speed while racing. Propulsion is sometimes referred to as kinetics. Many sailors don’t understand or apply the rule correctly for a variety of reasons: Lack of education and…

The 2022 ILYA Championship were held August 18-21 at Lake Geneva, WI. Approximately 200 boats raced in four classes – A Scow, E Scow, C Scow, and MC Scow. We caught up with the top performers in the E and…

2022 X Boat champion Owen Kohut and crew Ivar Eiseman won a hard-fought regatta at the senior X boat Inland Lake Yachting Association (ILYA) regatta at Clear Lake, IA. This is remarkable, since it is Owen’s first ILYA Champs senior…

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…

Our recent post, Learn to Change Gears, focused on three upwind “gears:” footing, pointing, and max VMG. These gears rely on changing the angle of attack. In this post we address another form of gears: using sail controls, rig tuning…

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…