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Boatspeed

Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES

How to Communicate Relatives

Monitoring and communicating your relative performance in a sailboat race is essential intelligence for your skipper and the speed team.

the author takes a low and fast angle off the start line

How to Find Your Speed Mode

High mode, low mode or somewhere in between, there’s a faster way to get to the mark first. The key is shifting into the right mode at the right time.

Kinetix, The Debrief Game-Changer

Your onboard sailing video can be more than sizzle-reel stuff for your social media feeds. You can also use it to eliminate any uncertainty about why and when you’re slow—or better yet, fast and winning races.

sailboat sailing upwind with crew hanging over the side

What Makes A Raceboat Tick

Andrew Palfrey explains the primary function of key controls in a way that applies to a broad range of boats, using the build of two International 5.5 Metre Class yachts in Cowes, UK, to help illustrate his points.

sailing in weather

Last Chance to Tune

Boatspeed is all a matter of balance, says former editor Bruce Kirby, who provides the essentials to achieving the right balance with simple adjustments. From One-Design and Offshore Yachtsman’s, September 1971.

windward strategy

Downwind Under Jib and Main

Non-spinnaker racing isn’t non-competitive. Ed Baird explains how to get an edge downwind with a whisker pole. From Sailing World, May 1992

Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES

How to Communicate Relatives

Monitoring and communicating your relative performance in a sailboat race is essential intelligence for your skipper and the speed team.

the author takes a low and fast angle off the start line

How to Find Your Speed Mode

High mode, low mode or somewhere in between, there’s a faster way to get to the mark first. The key is shifting into the right mode at the right time.

Kinetix, The Debrief Game-Changer

Your onboard sailing video can be more than sizzle-reel stuff for your social media feeds. You can also use it to eliminate any uncertainty about why and when you’re slow—or better yet, fast and winning races.

sailboat sailing upwind with crew hanging over the side

What Makes A Raceboat Tick

Andrew Palfrey explains the primary function of key controls in a way that applies to a broad range of boats, using the build of two International 5.5 Metre Class yachts in Cowes, UK, to help illustrate his points.

sailing in weather

Last Chance to Tune

Boatspeed is all a matter of balance, says former editor Bruce Kirby, who provides the essentials to achieving the right balance with simple adjustments. From One-Design and Offshore Yachtsman’s, September 1971.

windward strategy

Downwind Under Jib and Main

Non-spinnaker racing isn’t non-competitive. Ed Baird explains how to get an edge downwind with a whisker pole. From Sailing World, May 1992

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