Sailboat Racing Adventures

Racing Guides and Tutorials

• Racing Basics: http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Esail/skills/racing_basics/index1.shtml
• How to Lose a Sailboat Race: http://www.wayfarer-international.org/WIT/race.related/GeneralRacingTips/EarlSchnurRacingTips.htm
• Making Your Beats Shorter: http://www.wayfarer-international.org/WIT/race.related/GeneralRacingTips/Making_Your_Beats_Shorter.html
• To Tack or Not to Tack: http://www.wayfarer-international.org/WIT/race.related/GeneralRacingTips/ToTackOrNotTo.html
• Windshift Tracking: http://www.wayfarer-international.org/WIT/race.related/WeatherStrategyTactics/WindshiftTracking.htm
• Wayfarer OD site (lots of good general purpose racing tutorials): http://www.wayfarer-international.org/WIT/WITindex2.html

J/27 Links

• The J/27 page on the J/Boats website: http://jboats.com/j27-performance
• Sailing World article about the J/27 : http://www.sailingworld.com/sailboats/j27
• J/27 Wiki: http://j27.wikispaces.com/
• J/27 class website (slightly stale): http://www.j27.org/
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J/27
• J/27s on Lake Ontario: http://www.oysqn.com/index.php/2012/j-27-fleet-grows-2/
• Discussion about J/27 on Sailing Anarchy: http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=119591