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…

How good is your technique at the windward mark rounding? Video evidence suggests that even some top sailors are not always consistent. In this post, we discuss techniques, show some examples of gains and losses, and link to expert videos…

Drone video helps us to capture scenarios showing decisions being made and clearly show the result. In this case, we saw a leeward mark rounding that might be helpful to share. We also roughly modeled the scenario with wind tunnel…

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…

For many readers, including your editor, losing boats on the last leg is all too common. In this series of posts, we’re going to explore how to stay ahead on the last beat. We’ll start with covering tactics at the…

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…