Know Your Rules

July 03, 2024

After You Cross the Finishing Line II

In the last article I discussed a few situations that can happen after you cross the finishing line. I focused on the first two exceptions contained in the definition of finish. This article will focus on the third exception (c) “continues to sail the course.

May 17, 2024

After You Cross The Finishing Line I

Last fall, I had the opportunity to spend the weekend with 60 university sailors from ten different universities who were racing in the Canadian Intercollegiate Sailing Association (CICSA) Team Racing Championships. Team racing is a fun part of the sport and a great way to exercise a lot of rules in a short time. There were 40 races over two days.

May 09, 2024

Tacking III

Two articles ago I talked about tacking too close. Both examples that I used had the tacking boat tacking from port tack onto starboard tack. This time I would like to discuss the slightly more complicated situation of the boat that tacks from starboard tack onto port tack.

March 28, 2024

Tacking II

In the February issue of Kwasind, we published the first of a series of three articles on tacking, written by Andrew Alberti. Today we are publishing Part II on the website. This article talks about tacking onto the layline, at the weather mark. Keep an eye out in late April or early May the last article in this series. Click here to read the article.

February 29, 2024

Publication Changes and Tacking

When I started to write these articles in 1997, Kwasind was publishing as a hardcopy magazine, twelve times per year. About 15 years ago, we started to publish the diagrams on the club website in an animated form. Jump ahead a few decades and the trend reverses: Kwasind was published only three times in 2023.

November 23, 2023

How to Finish

Last summer, I observed several boats getting confused about where to finish. I am going to illustrate some of the scenarios. The rules are actually quite simple, but the application can sometimes confuse sailors.