Prebend and mast rake are two very different things but also very inter-related factors when setting up your rig for optimum speed...

Andy Rice offers five straightforward tips for racing with asymmetric spinnakers...

Part 1 of 3 articles looking at the importance of good boat trim. Sailing a dinghy upright is a skill that marks out the good sailors from the rest. So why don’t we all do it?

Former 18-foot skiff world champion Tim Robinson shows how to fight your way round an impossibly windy race course - and win...

A quick look at some of the basic sail settings to help you balance up the rudder so that boat tracks more easily - and more quickly - through the water...

Boat tuning is important, not just for making the boat go fast but making it more manageable too. However, if you start obsessively measuring your rig tension while you’re still capsizing three times a race, remember your priorities. Compared with boathandling and tactics, boat tuning is really just the icing on the cake...

Former 18-foot skiff world champion Tim Robinson prides himself on an ability to wrestle his boat around the track in ridiculously windy conditions. In part one of his survival sailing tips, he talks about getting your mind set right before riding into Armageddon...

I wonder what state the challenger teams in the America’s Cup would be in right now if the original AC90 class had gone ahead as planned. It was only just over a year ago when Alinghi revealed the fruits of their design work with a number of other challenger teams, for an ambitious 90-footer, of which any team would be allowed to build up to two hulls. Two hulls would have meant having two full-time crews to train, tune and race in them...