Goal Setting

Volvo Ocean Race winner Rob Greenhalgh shares his secrets on how to put a winning keelboat campaign together... how he prepares and trains and what his priorities are ashore and on the racecourse. Download his Professional Sailing Campaign goalscape. It's a masterclass. Tailor it to your specific campaign, goals and budget and you are off!

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.

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.

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....

Mat Belcher and Will Ryan should have been disappointed with third place at the 470 European Championships in Monaco recently, you might think. Not at all for the usually all-conquering Aussies though. For the Olympic medallists, this was a 'process' regatta, not an 'outcome' regatta, to use the parlance of top athletes....

Ian Walker, double Olympic silver medallist and Volvo Ocean Race winner as skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, shatters 10 myths about sailing and why anyone can get involved and have fun in the sport....

Have you set any goals for your sailing this year? If you have, then well done, you are on the right track. Of all the things that full-time, professional sailors do compared with the rest of us, the weekend warriors, disciplined goal-setting is perhaps one of the key distinguishing factors. Former Olympic sailors Ian Barker and Cathy Foster spell out the importance of S.M.A.R.T....