Sailboat Racing Tips: Lake Sailing In Big Breeze
Racing editor Mike Ingham shares his insight on how to handle puffs and shifts on typical lake venues, especially when it’s “windy and weird.”
Racing editor Mike Ingham shares his insight on how to handle puffs and shifts on typical lake venues, especially when it’s “windy and weird.”
Monitoring and communicating your relative performance in a sailboat race is essential intelligence for your skipper and the speed team.
Take the header to the pressure? When it’s light, you betcha, says Mike Ingham in his latest Sailboat Racing Tip.
We mic’d up Andy Horton and Travis Odenbach on the J/70 for a practice race. Listen in to hear how these top sailors get around the racecourse with fleet management, tactics and strategy calls.
Want to be the best crew you can be? It’s easy and starts with a positive attitude and a commitment to improving.
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.
A leeward gate rounding, especially a crowded one, provides opportunities to pass boats and set up for the next leg.
Avoiding wind shadows is an important part of your downwind strategy. Where are the shadows and how do you avoid them? Mike Ingham explains the essentials of avoiding bad air downwind.
Coiling and flaking running rigging properly is an important step to ensuring it runs freely when you it to. Erik Shampain shares his tips.
With modern sail design and hardware technology, ocean racing teams have more versatility with their sail inventories. Here’s how one team developed a winning inventory for the 2022 Bermuda Race.
A world-class sailing destination, the BVI also offer spectacular scuba diving. Here’s what it’s like to combine both in these fair isles.
Sailing World Racing Editor Mike Ingham explains how to develop a second-beat strategy before rounding the leeward mark or gate.
Racing editor Mike Ingham shares his insight on how to handle puffs and shifts on typical lake venues, especially when it’s “windy and weird.”
Monitoring and communicating your relative performance in a sailboat race is essential intelligence for your skipper and the speed team.
Take the header to the pressure? When it’s light, you betcha, says Mike Ingham in his latest Sailboat Racing Tip.
We mic’d up Andy Horton and Travis Odenbach on the J/70 for a practice race. Listen in to hear how these top sailors get around the racecourse with fleet management, tactics and strategy calls.
Want to be the best crew you can be? It’s easy and starts with a positive attitude and a commitment to improving.
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.
A leeward gate rounding, especially a crowded one, provides opportunities to pass boats and set up for the next leg.
Avoiding wind shadows is an important part of your downwind strategy. Where are the shadows and how do you avoid them? Mike Ingham explains the essentials of avoiding bad air downwind.
Coiling and flaking running rigging properly is an important step to ensuring it runs freely when you it to. Erik Shampain shares his tips.
With modern sail design and hardware technology, ocean racing teams have more versatility with their sail inventories. Here’s how one team developed a winning inventory for the 2022 Bermuda Race.
A world-class sailing destination, the BVI also offer spectacular scuba diving. Here’s what it’s like to combine both in these fair isles.
Sailing World Racing Editor Mike Ingham explains how to develop a second-beat strategy before rounding the leeward mark or gate.
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