Windward Mark Preparation Checklist
You can gain or lose boats quickly while approaching, rounding, and exiting the windward mark. There are plenty of things to worry
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Speed and Smarts
Downwind Strategy: Use Apparent Wind Clues
Dave Dellenbaugh’s Speed and Smarts, Issue 130 (May/June 2014) has a very informative diagram showing how to use apparent wind
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Make Better Decisions: Speed and Smarts
You can increase the percentage of decisions that lead to successful outcomes. For example, if you make the right decision
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Sail the Long Tack: Part of Your Strategy Mix
My favorite rule of thumb, and one that I have used with great success many times, is to ‘sail the
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Don’t Be Lazy with Mainsheet Tension
You need a huge range of mainsheet tension to be fast in all conditions, especially in boats with bendy masts.
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Seven Reasons to Keep a Sailing Notebook
When Briana and I set out on this journey, everyone told us that we would have to become students of
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Ladder Rungs: Understand the Race Course with a Visual Approach
Ladder Rungs Help You Understand the Race Course and Avoid Misconceptions Many sailors have basic misconceptions about race course geometry.
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Leeward Mark Roundings – Principles and C-Scow Examples
Your SailZing editors served as the Race Committee gate boat for the C-Scow NNN Beulah Challenge on September 24, 2017
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Sail the Lifted Tack – How and When?
Sail the Lifted Tack We all know this is a fundamental upwind racing strategy, but do we know when and
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