Following a series of discussions on Facebook about the relative challenges of wearing a face covering while sailing. Keith had a fun morning with James Oborne (Spinnaker Sailing Club's Chief Instructor) to experience first hand what it could be like to wear different types of face coverings when sa...

The rules that govern how to score each individual Team Race is given in the Racing Rules of sailing Appendix D - specifically Rule D3.1. The following provides some basic interpretation as to what each section of D3.1 actually means for whoever is scoring your racing.

For the 2018 UK National Team Racing Championships the race committee decided to run a trial to determine if it was possible to use competitor crowd sourcing to establish a ranking for seeding ahead of the event. Each team was provided details of all three helms and then invited to submit ...