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Rule 13 – While Tacking is the fourth and final right-of-way rule in Part 2 of the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). This post covers what you need to know about Rule 13, with video, animations, questions and answers, and…

Rule 12 – On the Same Tack, Not Overlapped is the third right-of-way rule in Part 2 of the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). This post covers what you need to know about Rule 12, with video, animations, questions and…

In this post we introduce the topic of mechanical advantage in sailboats. We’ll show how to determine the mechanical advantage of a block and tackle system and give examples for some of the scow classes. Humans have used pulleys and…

Rule 11 – On the Same Tack, Overlapped is the second right-of-way rule in Part 2 of the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). This post covers what you need to know about Rule 11, with video, animations, questions and answers,…

As a beginning sailor, your editor had to learn to sheet the mainsail hard enough to control the leech and point. So it was hard for me to understand the phrase “When in doubt, let it out.” Vaughan Harrison shows…

Rule 10 – On Opposite Tacks is the first rule in Part 2 of the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). This post covers what you need to know about Rule 10, with video, animation, and questions and answers. In 2018,…