The beauty of solo practicing is that you can work on a wide range of techniques and abilities without having to rely on anyone else except your crew and perhaps some emergency rescue service being present. Eric Twiname, in Sail,…
Many sailors spend time sailing the windward leg as part of their pre-race routine. Bill Draheim has a different approach: stay in the starting area and observe the other boats. He shares this approach in a post on the Quantum…
Race 1 of the 2020 MC Midwinters at Lake Eustis Sailing Club was sailed with 60 boats in very light air (2-5 mph). The RC made the course very short (0.2 miles) in order to stay within the only part…
The ILYA has posted new Class Rules covering the C-Scow and X-Boat classes. They were revised February 22, 2020 and can be found on the ILYA.org site, in our C-Scow and X-Boat sections and below. To read the class rules,…
Some days you just want to chill out and watch some videos. For this week’s post, we scoured YouTube and picked out a handful of short, G-rated entertaining sailing and boating videos. Some of them even have educational value by…
How good is your technique at the windward mark rounding? Video evidence suggests that even some top sailors are not always consistent. In this post, we discuss techniques, show some examples of gains and losses, and link to expert videos…
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