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    5 tips – Essential yacht racing skills

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    5 tips on developing your polar diagrams to improve your boat speed

    • May 25, 2016

    Sails are fresh, the bottom is clean, there’s a good crew, but you’ve been losing…

    5 tips: faster foils – make sure your keel and rudder are in tip top condition

    • May 5, 2016

    If you want to go faster, which would you choose: a new headsail or a…

    5 tips: the port and starboard cross – the simplest rule?

    • April 13, 2016

    With the wind slowly clocking right your original decision that the pin end was the…

    5 tips: why spring weather should be treated differently from summer

    • March 14, 2016

    The boat is sorted, the sails back on board and the crew lists are taking…

    5 tips: calibration. It’s crucial to keep your readouts giving the true picture

    • February 25, 2016

    We are quick to believe the readouts from our instruments, but how can we be…

    5 tips: pre-season troubleshooting – key problems with deck gear the experts see regularly

    • February 1, 2016

    You may have stepped off the boat at the end of the autumn series with…

    5 tips: how to survive a squall when racing

    • January 21, 2016

    Things get complicated when dark clouds build to windward and the horizon looks more like…

    5 tips on how to recover from a wipeout

    • January 4, 2016

    To keep a boat going on a gusty reach with kite and rudder on the…

    5 tips: the heavy weather gybe – how to deal with that trickiest of manoeuvres

    • November 30, 2015

    With your heart rate rising like a jockey heading towards Becher’s Brook in the Grand…

    5 tips: the float drop, a canny tactic to round a mark under pressure

    • November 12, 2015

    While a conventional spinnaker drop (kite down and pole away) may seem the safe option…

    5 tips: reaching and downwind starts – some advice from Sir Ben Ainslie

    • October 27, 2015

    The cut and thrust and elbow-shoving of a typical start is mostly about wrestling your…

    5 tips: the gybe set spinnaker hoist – when to use it and how

    • October 6, 2015

    There is always a temptation to keep things simple on the racecourse and opt for…

    5 tips: sailing deep under asymmetric sails – how to strike the balance

    • September 17, 2015

    “Are we in on this gybe?” is often a tricky question to answer when you…

    5 tips: sailing with an asymmetric – how to get yourself out of impossible-seeming situations

    • August 28, 2015

    You’re blasting downhill on port with the big asymmetric set, searching for a fast route…

    5 tips: OCS (on course side) or over the line at the start – what should you do?

    • August 12, 2015

    Pundits at any local sailing club say you’re not trying hard enough if you don’t…

    5 tips: light airs racing – how to keep going when all around are drifting in circles

    • August 10, 2015

    The forecast was spot on, the breeze has slackened as pressure rises, but now with…

    5 tips: getting a good start – and the 60 seconds after that

    • August 3, 2015

    The subtleties of a good start are more complicated than identifying a good spot to…

    5 tips: the dip and the squeeze – techniques to get you away from the start fast

    • July 23, 2015

    Even if you get clear air off the start line it’s likely there will be…

    How to win at Cowes Week: some people seem to ‘get lucky’ every year! How do they do it?

    • July 17, 2015

    Lone Star – XOD Name of boat: Lone Star – built 1960 Type of boat:…

    The 10 most common Cowes Week mistakes – and how to avoid them

    • July 14, 2015

    10. Running aground Tidal curves are essential and can be found free on www.easytide.co.uk. These…

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