Match racing is a tough win-or-lose game, which makes match racing sailors very good at analysing their races in fine detail. It’s a skill that fleet racing sailors would be well advised to copy...
A buoyancy aid is a good thing, isn’t it? As obvious as wearing a seatbelt in a car. Not necessarily for high performance sailors, suggests Andy Rice...
Elsewhere we’ve talked about the power of incurable optimism. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing, such as an realistic expectation (hope?) of how far you are from the start line...
Getting your fore and aft boat trim is critical for ultimate boat speed, and transitioning between different sailing modes requires you to shift your body weight accordingly...
If you try sailing your dinghy heeled to windward when you’re practising, chances are you’ll sail much more upright during racing. And that means you’ll be faster...
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?
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...
