Can’t point without pinching and losing speed? For this article, we collected everything we could find on how to solve common pointing problems. The experts are quite consistent, and what they say matches our experience. Here are five tips, in…

The skipper winning the most races inevitably is going to be the one with the best touch. I call touch the simultaneous coordination of steering and sail trim with wind and sea conditions. Sailing upwind is really a never-ending series…

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…

After a decent front row start, what’s the next priority? Answer: holding your lane and going fast, so you can break out of the pack and have strategic choices. For tips on lane management after the start, we turned to…

I grew up sailing lasers and love having at least four sets (of mainsail telltales). Most sailors think this is overkill, but I think more information on the wind flowing thru the sail only can help. Rob Seidelmann, perennial MC…

These two videos are about sailing in waves while either pinching or footing.  One would not ordinarily want to pinch in waves, but sometimes you may need to in order to hold a lane or to hedge toward an upcoming…