For anything you want to work on, particularly a manoeuvre like a tack, gybe or mark rounding, Olympic gold medal winning coach and former 49er European Champion Paul Brotherton has a Six-Step system that you can apply...
Olympic coach and cat sailor extraordinaire, Hugh Styles, talks through the best way of taking your penalty turns in fast multihulls. Painful, but necessary medicine if you fall foul of a fellow competitor. “Most penalties seem to occur around the windward and leeward marks, and if you’re taking one half way up a beat, something must have gone badly wrong..."
It creeps up with seemingly little warning, and the mysteries of the 'Flout' - the 'fly-out' - have yet to be solved by the AC75 crews. Aero and Hydro expert, Alan Smith, argues that the flout makes the AC75 inherently dangerous to sail...
A good start in the 49erFX requires intense focus, superb boathandling and acute spatial awareness. One of the US Sailing Team's top 49erFX duos explain how it’s done....
Spicing things up - Quantum's Travis Odenbach sails with his J/70 HoneyBadger. Photo by Phil Pape.
It’s not uncommon for racers to sail multiple boats or one-design classes. Quantum’s Travis Odenbach offers some tips on getting up to speed on a new platform...
In keeping with the ‘keep no secrets’ ethos that has made the Musto Skiff class so successful over the past 20 years, round-the-cans supremo Ben Schooling, reigning UK National Champion Jamie Hilton and reigning World Champion Bruce Keen hold nothing back as they share their best tips.
Spicing things up - Quantum's Travis Odenbach sails with his J/70 HoneyBadger. Photo by Phil Pape.
