Left & Right Winches, and Mast Climbing Safety When left and right winches meet in the same pit Following up on marking your winches — here’s what it actually looks like at the professional end of the sport. Racing on a big offshore raceboat this week, the starboard pit runs genuinely mixed winch handing: right-hand […]
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How We Trim Our Downwind Sails Two numbers on the instrument display tell you almost everything you need to know about trimming a sail — apparent wind and true wind — and most people never learn to read them properly. Apparent versus true wind, and why the difference matters True wind is the wind as
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Mark Your Winches It only takes one runaway halyard to teach you why this matters. Olly learned it the hard way, early on — still working out how winches turn, cranked one the wrong direction, and had a kite halyard zip straight out of his hands before anyone could stop it. No harm done, but
Sailing to Work: Paikea Delivers the Family to the Gunboat 68 Launch We sailed to France for work. That’s the short version. The longer version involves a half-finished mainsail, a plastic bag around the propeller in the dark, three boys who turned out to be surprisingly useful, and a front-row seat at the launch of
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