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Terry's Tips: Finding Your Balance
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Buoy Racing by Terry Hutchinson
Sailing upwind can be a lot like walking on a tightrope. Finding your equilibrium is difficult. Once you balance everything, however, forward progress will come rapidly.
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March 12, 2013Three Winning Team Race Movesby Amanda Callahan, Illustrations by Kim DowningAt the upper levels of team racing, many sail according to the same “playbook.” In the end it all comes down to which team can execute the play the quickest. Here are some moves to help you execute and get your team across the finish line in a winning combination.
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March 5, 2013Terry's Tips: The Ultimate Warm-Up Planby Terry HutchinsonIt's one of the first things you learn in grade-school gym: the value of a proper warm-up. But getting ready for a sailing race requires more than 20 jumping jacks and some hamstring stretches. Terry Hutchinson takes you though his pre-race plan.
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February 25, 2013Photo of the Month: Tim Wrightby Meredith PowlisonWe catch up with Tim Wright, the photographer behind February’s Photo of the Month. The intrepid liveaboard photographer took this shot—which our associate art director best described as “gnarly”—of the Class 40 Voiles 44 during the RORC Caribbean 600.
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February 12, 2013Winner's Debrief: J/24 World Champion Tactician Alex Saldanhaby Dave ReedThe tactical brainpower behind Mauricio Santa Cruz's four-time J/24 world championship winning Bruschetta shares his big-fleet management tips.
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February 12, 2013Tech Review: 10 Cool Rigger Tricksby Ryan ScottFrom glow-in-the-dark sheets to synthetic lifelines, cordage upgrades should be on your to-do list before you splash your boat for the next racing season.
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February 6, 2013Terry's Tips: Recovering from an OCSby Terry HutchinsonRegattas are often won not by the sailor with the most great finishes, but by the sailor with the fewest bad finishes. An OCS doesn't have to ruin your race or your regatta. Here are six tips, from America's Cup veteran Terry Hutchinson, to get you back into contention, or at least back in touch with the bulk of the fleet, after jumping the gun.
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February 6, 2013Trim It Right, Shoot It Rightby Chuck AllenNorth Sails' Chuck Allen shares tips on how to get the right angles when capturing your onboard sail-trim photos.
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January 31, 2013The Sports Psychiatristby Amelia QuinnThe right attitude and a little bit of psychiatry in the front of the boat will go a long ways toward success.
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January 29, 2013Photo of the Month: Onne van der Walby Eleanor LawsonSailing World caught up with Onne van der Wal this week to talk about sailing photography and January's Photo of the Month. With more than 20 years of experience, van der Wal has traveled all over the world shooting sailboats, and this month he was on site for Key West Race Week, the scene of this photo.
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January 8, 2013Getting Handicap Racing On Parby Ken ReadHandicapping our boats is a start, but wouldn’t it be better if we could handicap ourselves, too? What works for golf could work for sailing. Gaining Bearing from our November/December 2012 issue.
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last year sail to La Spezia before test days for European Yacht of The Year
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PYC Etchells Fleet 27 Tuesday night racing kicked off on May 14, 2013.
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