How to Ensure A Good Start
Following a few basic steps and implementing a pre-start routine ensures consistently good starts. Here’s your go-to primer.
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Following a few basic steps and implementing a pre-start routine ensures consistently good starts. Here’s your go-to primer.
The bigger the fleet, the harder it can be to score consistent top finishes, but a couple of young 420 aces show how it can be done.
Professional coach and champion sailor Mike Ingham guides us through the steps to defending a position on the starting line to get a fast and clean start.
When sailing in open water, you can find the starting line using a transit. From Sailing World, November 1995
We’ve all been there, but the key is to remember the race is far from over—patience and boatspeed can save the day. From Sailing World, February, 2007
The building blocks of a good start are understanding the line setup, how quickly you approach, and making sure you’re at full speed.
Professional sailor, Ed Baird, revisits an instructional column from the 1981 issue of Yacht Racing/Cruising (Sailing World) about how to make decisions in the first minutes of the race.
One of my little pet peeves is inaccurate line pinging. It’s important to take your time and be accurate. Good input in equals good input out.
Want to be able to hold your position on the line with the best of them? In dinghy sailing and skiff sailing, down-speed boathandling will
Trying out a new class is one way to learn more about boatspeed. Step one to getting up to speed? Proper preparation.
Terry Hutchinson provides rules of thumb for when to foot and when to pinch.
When there’s current flowing across the starting line, there are opportunities aplenty to score the perfect start.
Following a few basic steps and implementing a pre-start routine ensures consistently good starts. Here’s your go-to primer.
The bigger the fleet, the harder it can be to score consistent top finishes, but a couple of young 420 aces show how it can be done.
Professional coach and champion sailor Mike Ingham guides us through the steps to defending a position on the starting line to get a fast and clean start.
When sailing in open water, you can find the starting line using a transit. From Sailing World, November 1995
We’ve all been there, but the key is to remember the race is far from over—patience and boatspeed can save the day. From Sailing World, February, 2007
The building blocks of a good start are understanding the line setup, how quickly you approach, and making sure you’re at full speed.
Professional sailor, Ed Baird, revisits an instructional column from the 1981 issue of Yacht Racing/Cruising (Sailing World) about how to make decisions in the first minutes of the race.
One of my little pet peeves is inaccurate line pinging. It’s important to take your time and be accurate. Good input in equals good input out.
Want to be able to hold your position on the line with the best of them? In dinghy sailing and skiff sailing, down-speed boathandling will
Trying out a new class is one way to learn more about boatspeed. Step one to getting up to speed? Proper preparation.
Terry Hutchinson provides rules of thumb for when to foot and when to pinch.
When there’s current flowing across the starting line, there are opportunities aplenty to score the perfect start.
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