Buddy Melges

A Different Kind of Sailing Book Eric Twiname’s Sail, Race and Win might be the best book available about becoming a better sailor. It doesn’t focus much on sailing technique. Instead, it shows how to teach yourself to win. If you are…

SailZing.com is presenting a series of “Tactical IQ” sessions to help you think through common race situations. For this session, we put 8 leeward gate tactics scenarios in front of a group of scow sailors with SailZing’s model boats and…

When Briana and I set out on this journey, everyone told us that we would have to become students of the sport. They were right. Taking notes fast-tracked our learning.  Annie Haeger in The Write Solution – Sailing World It’s…

Get into the habit of using the same starting approach every time.  Greg Fisher, College of Charleston Head Coach and multiple class champion Develop a Routine Starting Line Approach To improve your starts, many experts suggest you use the same…

We never went into any particular race saying, ‘Oh, you’ve got to go left,’ or ‘You’ve got go right.’ You had to continually adapt up the beat and see where the pressure was. There were pretty big pressure differentials and…