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How Can You Recover From A Disastrous Start?

Its important to remember that a bad start is not the end of your day, patience and keeping a cool head will generally save you from a total disaster. If your start has gone wrong, don’t panic and look for a clean exit sooner rather than later. Be patient though, a hasty change to your pre-determined plan without considering all options may actually place you in an even worse situation. Two…

HOW TO SET SAILS – THE CONTROLS AND THEIR EFFECTS

Excerpts from an interview with highly accomplished Dinghy through to Maxi Yacht sailor and North Sails sailmaker Michael Coxon. What’s the most important sail control and how does that vary from class to class? “The most important sail control for any boat is the sheet tension. Where the sheet tension will tend to control the twist of the sail and the general drive of it, you can actually then…

Considerations and Tips For Races and Regatta Sailing

Watching the Olympic sailing, with the silky smooth boat handling and tactics it got me thinking about the the basic things that the rest of us at all levels below the Olympians must have instinctively dialled in. In a multi race series consistency is probably the big one but there are a number of other basic things that we should all practice and have committed to muscle memory. Every time you…

Minimize Sailing Injuries – Three Best Sailing Stretches.

Copied from an article written by Brad Walker – https://www.stretchcoach.com  Regardless of the size of the boat, sailing will require all the upper body strength you can muster. Your upper torso, including your shoulders, arms and abdominal muscles will play a major role in operating a sailboat. The main muscles in play are the rhomboids, trapezius and rotator cuff in the shoulders, and…

Pre-Race Routines to Ensure Greater Race Day Success

Your pre-start routine shouldn’t be set in concrete and needs to be fine-tuned according to the conditions, your freshness and any glaring weaknesses that you can work on in the time available.  Ideally, a three or four-hour gap between waking up and starting a race works best to make sure there’s time to get ready, feed, hydrate and switch on.  Vary how early before the race you hit the water.…