Learn to sail in Gordons Bay
Exciting news - The Sailing Academy is set to providing keelboat sailing lessons in Gordons Bay! The Academy will offer the World Sailing recognised South African Sailing ‘Learn to Sail’ course. This course includes 36 hours of course contact, r...
Fitness in Sailing & Winter Training
As I sit in my study looking out across False Bay, rain pouring down, the topic of winter training and fitness crossed my mind. A wiser person than I once told me that in sailing, you need to be fit enough to carry out the manouveurs in your ding...
Sail Controls & Sail Trim
In this article on the basic sail controls and sail trim, I will explain how to use the basic sail controls available on all boats to set your sail trim. These sail controls should be adjusted whilst sailing your boat, each time you change the cou...
Why You Should Race a Dinghy
As I prepare for this weekends Race Training clinic, I was reminded what an awesome sport dinghy racing is. Regattas are run in an amazing environment, often in iconic sailing waters, while we as sailors take up the challenge of the wind and water...
Trim Your Dinghy For Speed
There are three requirements that you need to achieve, if you want to win a race. Firstly, you need to ensure that you start and finish the race, secondly, you need to sail consistently faster than all the other boats and thirdly, you need to mak...
Staying Out Of Trouble On The Race Course
Preparation for the first race of the regatta starts way before the Skippers Brief on day one, but for the purposes of this sailing article we are only going to concern ourselves with some of the things that might go wrong on the race course and n...
Using The Wind To Your Best Advantage
As sailors it is the wind that drives our boats forward and round the race course, to be competitive we need to be sure to use it to our best advantage at all times. It requires intense concentration and perfect sail trim to maintain your boat sp...
Racing With A Gennaker
Modern racing dinghies all use asymmetric spinnakers or gennakers providing thrilling high speed reach-to-reach racing on the downwind leg using the apparent wind. Unlike symetrical spinnakers, the gennaker has its clew attached to a continuous sh...
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