This article has been updated. If you rank racing skills by degree of difficulty and potential for gain/loss, big fleet starts are at or near the top. In small fleets, it’s easier to get a good start and if you…

If you didn’t grow up sailing, how long did it take you to figure out what sailors mean when they say “put the bow down?” After hearing from newer sailors that the language of racing is hard to decipher, we…

At SailZing.com, we’re always interested in new ways to learn, on and off the racecourse. Thus, we were intrigued when Vakaros first introduced the Atlas in 2018. When the Atlas 2 arrived raising the bar further in 2021, including 50…

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…

Peter Keck is the 2022 Champion of US Sailing‘s Championship of Champions event held at Shore Acres Yacht Club on Barnegat Bay, NJ on October 9, 2022. We asked Peter to share some of what it took to win the…

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…