Rob Greenhalgh: Planning your keelboat campaign

It was a belter of a leg. With a forecast for 30kts on the nose and wind against tide, the Gibraltar Strait provided a sharp focus for the leg from Cascais to Alicante.

Ask a professional sailor what his most precious resource is, and most will say it's 'Time'. Surely it's Wind or Water, isn't it? Well, that bit we can't control, but how we use our time we certainly can control. Here is some background to how and why Rob Greenhalgh structured his Tour Voile campaign, getting his Oman Sail Farr 30 sailing team up to speed in a matter of weeks during the spring of 2010....

In part 2 of our look at advanced goal-setting software, Emmett Lazich joins Goalscape's Marcus Baur and SailJuice's Andy Rice to explain how he uses goal-setting technology to help him coach teams to world championship winning success. Lazich has coached Nathan Outteridge to Olympic glory in London 2012 and numerous 49er World Championships, and also coached the Finland 49er team to Olympic gold in Sydney 2000.

There are plenty of reasons and excuses we can come up with not to start setting goals. So break the habit and start laying out those targets right now. Identify your major weaknesses, give yourself a score out of 10, and have the courage and determination to keep on working on these weaknesses until you minimise or even eradicate them....

In part one of our look at advanced goal-setting techniques, Goalscape's Marcus Baur (double 49er European Champion) and Richard Parslow (former Fireball World Champion and 49er coach) explain why they invented this advanced goal-setting technology and what it can do for helping point any sailing campaign on the right path to success.

Jim Saltonstall is one of the greatest sailing coaches in the world. Through the youth programme that he set up at the RYA more than 30 years ago, Jim has coached some of the fastest 'ferrets' in the universe. Here Jim shares his 10-step Formula for Championship success. It all starts with your Port and Starboard Nipples, and everybody's got them. So you have no excuse to lose, if you just follow Jim's tips for putting a Gold Medal between your Nipples...

Dave Hughes, winning crew in the 2015 edition of the 470 Europeans, talks about getting your priorities right and how to identify blind alleys before you drive down them and waste valuable training time...

Multiple champion and America's Cup finallist Terry Hutchinson talks about setting goals for a regatta or for the whole season. Sometimes you need a kick in the teeth before you realise what it is that needs working on. The worst thing you can do is tell yourself: 'I'm crap at starting' and never to do anything about it....

"I used to be small, was good at lake sailing, good in light winds. So when those conditions came along I used to train for six or seven hours because, man, it felt great beating everyone else! But then it was 30 knots, big waves, and the time when you should be really enjoying your sailing, I used to get my arse kicked. I'd only spend a third of my time practising in those conditions. And it didn't take me long to realise that the reason why I wasn't good across the board was because the stuff I'm good at, that's all I practised at..." So what did Paul Goodison do next?

Before you get too far down the track with a new sailing partner, make sure you have the same goals and aspirations, warns Jon Emmett. Do otherwise, and you're storing up trouble for the future....

Designed by two-time Olympic 49er sailor Marcus Baur, this skeleton Goalscape template gives you the basis of a great campaign planner for your sailing. Combine this with some of the ideas in the Goal Setting section of Articles in SailJuice and start building your comprehensive plan for the next phase of your sailing.