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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.

Cordelia Burn and crew Sarah Moeder

How to Win Your Next Race

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.

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How to Recover From a Bad Start

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

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The First 100 Yards

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.

Pinging diagram

How to Get a Proper Ping

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.

sailboats

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.

Cordelia Burn and crew Sarah Moeder

How to Win Your Next Race

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.

Race start

How to Recover From a Bad Start

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

priority chart

The First 100 Yards

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.

Pinging diagram

How to Get a Proper Ping

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.

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