Paige Railey's victory at the Laser Radial European Championships 2009 shows the American is back on top form. In a new online experiment, Paige looks back through her race moves using TracTrac GPS tracking software, and explains what her strategy and tactics were at each stage of the race...
With limited visibility steering the Skud keelboat, multiple World Champion in the Paralympic keelboat, Alex Rickham talks about the challenge of looking for breeze and getting the tactics and strategy right downwind...
One-design racing is the purest measure of sailing prowess, but if you spend most of your sailing doing club races, then doubtless you will be spending much of your time racing under handicap. So of course you want to know how to 'milk' the system! Indeed, some sailors even choose their boat according to its perceived performance under handicap. Now, that's what you call pot hunting...
There is a beautiful simplicity to the concept of a pursuit race. Set the tortoises off first, then release the hares, and in a perfect race all competitors would finish across the line at the same time. Reality is very different, however, with only a handful of boats in the running by the closing stages. So how do you make sure you are in one of those boats with a fighting chance of winning?
How Andy Rice & Nick Murphy won the 2003 Bloody Mary in the 49er. "We expected to have a fight on our hands with Dave Hall and Simon Hiscocks, but when their jib came separated from the forestay on the first tack, we had a clear jump on the rest of our fleet. This was a huge benefit for us, as now we could focus on looking forwards...."