How’s Your Speed?
Feeling slow? Take a look at these four factors that have the biggest effect on your speed and get moving!
Feeling slow? Take a look at these four factors that have the biggest effect on your speed and get moving!
Light air can be frustrating, but Tony Rey has the advice to make the most of it.
Although it defies our instincts, it pays to pinch in a lull.
When the speed team is talking angles and numbers, everyone’s on the same page.
One “click” of a winch or ratchet block can cause a jib sail’s leech telltale to go from flowed to stalled
It’s easy to become enamored with the marvelous wings of the AC72, but wings are powerful and efficient. The headsails remain a crucial part of the aero package, which makes trimming them a challenge at high speed.
Should you stay in the high lane after the weather mark? Sam Rogers helps you get into planing mode.
Tech Review: How did Paul Larsen’s Vestas Sailrocket 2 peg 64 knots? James Boyd explores the turbulent path to the recent record blitz.
Can a sit-down boat exceed the speeds that purpose-built sailboards have established? In this Need for Speed article from our March 1992 issue, Gary Hoyt weighs the merits of windsurfers.
A look at the technical intricacies of sailing in no wind from crew extraordinaire Amelia Quinn.
The SpeedDream 27 takes all the go-fast accoutrements of modern yacht design and blends them into one radical concept. Tech Review from our November/December 2012 issue.
Paul Larsen hits 53 knots in the Vestas Sailrocket 2.
Feeling slow? Take a look at these four factors that have the biggest effect on your speed and get moving!
Light air can be frustrating, but Tony Rey has the advice to make the most of it.
Although it defies our instincts, it pays to pinch in a lull.
When the speed team is talking angles and numbers, everyone’s on the same page.
One “click” of a winch or ratchet block can cause a jib sail’s leech telltale to go from flowed to stalled
It’s easy to become enamored with the marvelous wings of the AC72, but wings are powerful and efficient. The headsails remain a crucial part of the aero package, which makes trimming them a challenge at high speed.
Should you stay in the high lane after the weather mark? Sam Rogers helps you get into planing mode.
Tech Review: How did Paul Larsen’s Vestas Sailrocket 2 peg 64 knots? James Boyd explores the turbulent path to the recent record blitz.
Can a sit-down boat exceed the speeds that purpose-built sailboards have established? In this Need for Speed article from our March 1992 issue, Gary Hoyt weighs the merits of windsurfers.
A look at the technical intricacies of sailing in no wind from crew extraordinaire Amelia Quinn.
The SpeedDream 27 takes all the go-fast accoutrements of modern yacht design and blends them into one radical concept. Tech Review from our November/December 2012 issue.
Paul Larsen hits 53 knots in the Vestas Sailrocket 2.
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