Sailing And Racing Skills

If you have suggestions for items that would be useful additions to this page, please email sail@uiowa.edu. Thanks.

Basic Sailing Skills

• FJ Sailing Manual - From the University of Wisconsin Sailing Club WWW Server (note: there is some U Wisc. - specific information in this manual... the organizational structure does not apply to anyone else)
  • More U. Wisconsin Sailing Instruction Pages
• Knots
  • From "The Knotting Dictionary of Kannet"
  • Roper's Knot Page (Netherlands)
  • A very cool knot movie page!

Racing Skills

• Skills
  • RACING BASICS, a basic racing manual which you can read or download at your leisure.

     

  • Laser clinic notes by Steve Bourdow
  • Starting drills provided by a member of the University of Wisconsin Sailing Club
  • "Keep a Fast Course," by Jim Brady
  • Sample issue of "Speed and Smarts," by Dave Dellenbaugh (good wind issue)

   

• Fitness
  • Hiking exercises to strengthen important parts of your hiking physique - provided by someone on the ICYRA list server
  • Hiking and knee stress article, forwarded to the Laser email list by Shona Moss.

   

• Rules
  • US Sailing Racing Rules

Boat Maintenance

• Pictoral Essay on Laser mast step repair
  • by Tim and Wendy Thorpe Allen

General Knowledge

• Signal Flags

Sailing Instruction

• Cal Sailing Club FASTRACK Syllabus, by Paul "Call Me Fishmeal" Kamen
• United States Power Squadron

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