SB20 World Champion Geoff Carveth and top RYA coach Mark Rushall held a boathandling clinic for SB20 sportsboat sailors in the Hamble. Mark, Geoff and his bow girl Emma Clarke shared tons of useful tips for sailing fast and effectively. Here are their tips for tacking, and there is much to learn for any sportsboat sailor...

We ask Geoff Carveth to analyse some of the factors in his victory at the first ever Laser SB20 Worlds against a fleet of 137 boats. Geoff might have been pre-event favourite, but it wasn't won until the final leg of the final race...

The late, great Roger Hickman was a twice winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. Here, Roger talks about the strange appeal of ruining Christmas for a race that sailors have a love-hate relationship with....

It's sometimes a tough gamble. Quantum's Terry Hutchinson provides rules of thumb for when to foot and when to pinch. "The basic concept of going fast-forward in a lift, or pinching in a header, has been around for as long as I can remember - or at least since my junior sailing days when my instructor passed along this tactical tidbit along. Going fast-forward-what's also referred to as 'making a bearing gain' - is a great weapon to have in your tactical arsenal."

Michael Blackburn won the Laser World Championships in his mid-30s. He also coached Tom Slingsby and Tom Burton to gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016 respectively, as well as winning an Olympic bronze of his own. The Australian, who sailed his Laser more than a hundred miles across the treacherous Bass Strait, knows a thing or two about fitness for sailing...

Watching Team Nika win - and dominate - the RC44 World Championship 2017 in Sweden was a lesson in strong, conservative tactics. No surprise when you learn that owner Vladimir Prosikhin had Terry Hutchinson as his tactician. Just as Torben Grael was known for going off on a flyer into the corner of the course (doing a ‘Torben’), doing a ‘Terry’ is about keeping the game tight in the centre of the course. As Terry himself says, “It’s a game of feet and inches.”

Expert navigator Wouter Verbraak gives his analysis on the early stages of the Volvo Ocean Race in November 2017.....