https://www.uksailmakers.com/2019/05/15/downwind-sailboat-racing-tips/ Sail with confidence! Thu, 30 May 2019 03:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://www.uksailmakers.com/2019/05/15/downwind-sailboat-racing-tips/#comment-137 Thu, 30 May 2019 03:53:14 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=235#comment-137 In future, it would be helpful if you would explain terms like "heated up our course and burned down in the puffs" and "Soaking down".
It might be common parlance for professionals, but amateurs like myself struggle with it.

]]> https://www.uksailmakers.com/2019/05/15/downwind-sailboat-racing-tips/#comment-136 Fri, 24 May 2019 17:32:31 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=235#comment-136 Yep!
I have crewed with many skippers, and some of them love, and I mean love in all caps, instrument sailing. Usually those are former pilots. "instrument flying".
But to me, it’s the sails that are telling you what to do, how to steer, and what the wind is doing. The sails are the instruments.

]]> https://www.uksailmakers.com/2019/05/15/downwind-sailboat-racing-tips/#comment-346 Fri, 24 May 2019 17:32:31 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=235#comment-346 Yep!
I have crewed with many skippers, and some of them love, and I mean love in all caps, instrument sailing. Usually those are former pilots. "instrument flying".
But to me, it’s the sails that are telling you what to do, how to steer, and what the wind is doing. The sails are the instruments.

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