What factors do you consider when choosing the leeward gate? Furthest upwind Favored side of the course for next beat Getting to the lifted tack after rounding Traffic Position of competitors Follow the guys ahead, since they must know what…
This category develops your ability to sail smart, focusing on racing strategy and tactics. Subcategories include strategy principles, tactical principles, and specific strategies and tactics for starting, upwind, downwind, reaching, marks and finishes.
As the 2019 summer racing season gets underway, your SailZing editors have been gathering race experiences to help drive home concepts about boat speed, handling, strategy, and tactics. In the past two weeks, we found four examples of downwind strategy…
In Speed and Smarts #130, Dave Dellenbaugh provides a simple graph to help you determine strategic priorities for a race. In this article, with Dave’s permission, we’ll recap his discussion of what’s behind the graph. Priorities – Heavy vs. Light…
Several SailZing readers recently completed a sailing skills survey. One of the areas they requested help on was how to plan the next beat on the downwind leg. We asked Ted Keller to share his thoughts on this topic. Here…
SailZing is presenting a series of “Tactical IQ” sessions to help you think through common race situations. For this session, we put six starting tactics scenarios in front of a group of scow sailors with SailZing’s model boats and recorded…
Will Demand, from MC Scow fleet 105, finished 2nd in the 60 boat 2019 MC Scow Midwinters in Eustis, FL. This is remarkable because it was his first major regatta in the boat. Will graciously shared his regatta notes. Overall…
ADVERTISEMENT
Newer Posts
