Getting off the Line and Up to Speed
A post from Quantum Sails by way of Sailing World. A reminder on how to get a good start.
In large fleets, starts […]
5 Tips: How to Survive a Squall When Racing
What sort of weather will see at the Shipwrights’? Who knows. But in case we have a repeat of the boat buster that came up several years ago, here are […]
5 Tips: Getting a Good Start – and the 60 Seconds After That
If a good start is the key to good race, the last tack into the start and the first 60 seconds out of it are crucial, explains top America’s Cup […]
Flow Control of the Kite
A post from Mike Ingham in Sailing World
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Columbia River Man Overboard
Coast Guard image
A post by John Selwyn Gilbert […]
Ingham’s Insight: Pinch Through The Lull
Once you start wrapping your head around VMG, you start to realize that making the boat go faster sometimes might be the slower way to the mark. From Sailing World.
Sailrace Seminar Reminder, Monday the 9th, Sail Trim for Speed
The T-Birds get a solid […]
Rounding Goes Pear Shaped In Etchells’ Race
From the 2015 Etchell’s Sid Doren Race. Watch the whole mess unfold in a One Design melee. Sequence on Scuttlebutt here, photos by John Payne whose web site […]
Monday Sailracing Encounter Group Reminder
Here is a reminder that we are still meeting. Next seesion is on Monday, February 9the at 6pm at the NWMC.
We are planning to discuss […]
A Video Worth Studying
Excellent seminar on the 26th. Stig showed this video and pointed out that he and his crew watch it frame by frame. Lots of great […]