Want to point higher and sail faster? Jimmy Hellberg in collaboration with the West Coat Sailing Association (Västkustens Seglarförbund) will run two seminars in February. The objective is to better understand how “it all comes together”, rudder, keel, trim, rigging and so on. There is still time to wish TheContinue Reading
Practice makes perfect. It is said that you need 10.000 hours of any specific activity to master it. It is said that the more you practice, the luckier you get. When it comes to sailing, time on the water clearly pays off. Not having grown up sailing dingies, we areContinue Reading
I need picking your brain and get some ideas… As you know, we are kicking off our first season aboard a J/80. We have done the theory… now we need to start collecting real sailing data, to compare with our theoretical and fine tune it. And because we are aContinue Reading
Once again, restrictions due to Covid19 prevent us to race. We set out to meet up with other boats on the water just outside Marstrand and train doublehanded racing. The set up was simple, but intense: several starts, relatively short heats ’round the cans, but long enough to experiment! TheContinue Reading
Stora Oset Race is a classic regatta that plays out in the Northern archipelago of Gothenburg, starting and ending at Björlanda Kile and arranged by the local sailing club BKSS. It takes place early in the season. An inshore race spiced by a brief taste of open sea. Short enoughContinue Reading
If you are not familiar with shorthanded sailboat racing, but you want to give it a try in the coming months, check out JOG’s recorded shorthanded webinar. Loads of tips and one ever-present message: PREPARATIONContinue Reading
Year 2020 has been a different one. Usual problems called for unusual solution, RaceQs being one of them. Being able to neither arrange races, nor meet before and after sail, nor have a rib on the water, we managed club races on our own. Communication happened through Facebook while ratingContinue Reading
Mid-May wonderfully sunny days. Lady Godiva Sail Racing Team skippered by Anders Dahlsjö suggested a shorthanded offshore training with a pretty intense course around Kattegatt and stretching over 3 days and 3 nights. As we are planning to participate at the Vegvisir Race in late summer running the 2Star courseContinue Reading
1. Sailed not aggressively enough for lack of confidence. In all of the 3 of the 4 major races we have not sailed at full potential, reducing sail to avoid messing up the taking a reef when it would get airy, or not deploying appropriate downwind sail area to avoidContinue Reading