This is Part Six of a six-part series on Learning to Sail excerpted from Colgate's Basic Sailing, used as a text at the Offshore Sailing School. Steve Colgate calls upon a vast experience gleaned from teaching thousands of students and competing at some of the highest levels of the sport. The following article deals with symmetrical spinnakers. (Review Part Five).
Flying this downwind sail means both an increase in boatspeed and concentration. | |