By Ken Legler Practice Drills for Team Racing Most team racing drills fall into two categories; race and re-set and forced rounding combinations. There are plenty more but let’s start with these two. In race and re-set simply start a team race until one team has a big lead. The boat in first can sail … Read More
By Airwaves Contributor Ken Legler Are strategy and tactics not the same? Strategy is you versus the race course, including wind, current, position of marks, and obstacles. Tactics is you versus the other boats, including maneuvers such as ducking, dipping, lee bow, blanketing, and of course asserting your right-of-way. Strategy is what you use to … Read More
Presented by Mauri Pro Sailing Skippers are generally considered to be the bigger factor in executing team racing moves and certainly skippers need to know the plays to win. However, as the competitive level of dinghy team racing has improved in college sailing in the last ten years, crews have taken a far more important … Read More
Black Flag – Behind the Scenes By: Pete Levesque Brought to you by Mauri Pro Sailing www.mauriprosailing.com Typically, when a race committee displays the black flag, sailors will automatically lower their expectations for the next start knowing that they will have to be conservative in the next sequence. In the following article, I’m … Read More
The RAD was designed to fill a void in most Junior Sailing Programs between Opti and C420. Many programs were having a hard time with keeping and engaging kids that were either becoming too big, getting lonely, getting bored or just didnt want to skipper an Opti. Historically, Sailing programs had three boats to transition … Read More