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…
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What are the most common racing skills for improvement? In our post Racing Skills Evaluation: Develop a Self-Improvement Plan, we offered a free self-evaluation survey of 16 skills areas divided into over 80 subskills. Based on the results so far,…
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This post covers the expert wisdom on where to start. We updated the post from the original version, incorporating some new key points and adding a video from Roble/Shea Sailing on the topic. Where to Start – A Balancing Act…
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How many times have you been burned at the windward mark, losing multiple places in less than a minute? It’s easy to do, since there are so many traps to avoid. For this post, we collected the available wisdom on…
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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…