Table of Contents
Basic Racing Rules
| * The need for racing rules |  |
| * Alternative penalties |  |
| * Protests | |
| * Golden rules |  |
Helming and Crewing Skills
| Tacking | |
| Gybing | |
| Beating | |
| Reaching |
Boat Preparation and Equipment
| Hull preparation | |
| Mast and rigging | |
| Gear and systems | |
| General maintenance | |
| Golden rules |
Tactics
| Wind shadow | |
| Dirty wind | |
| Lee-bow effect | |
| The start | |
| The gate start | |
| Tactics on the beat | |
| Tactics on the reach | |
| Tactics on the run | |
| Tactics at the finish | |
| Golden rules |
Strategy
| Short beats | |
| Current | |
| General strategy on the beat | |
| Windshifts and windbends | |
| One-sided beats | |
| Strategy on the reach | |
| Strategy on the run | |
| Strategy at the finish | |
| Golden rules |
Tuning
| General requirements | |
| What are we trying to do? | |
| What do all the controls do? | |
| Initial set-up onshore | |
| Initial set-up on water | |
| Adjusting the rig for various wind strengths | |
| Golden rules |
The Spinnaker
| Spinnaker gear | |
| Raising and lowering the spinnaker | |
| Running | |
| Reaching | |
| Gybing the spinnaker | |
| Golden rules |
The Asymmetric Spinnaker
| Advantages | |
| Disadvantages | |
| Rigging your asymmetric | |
| Equipment | |
| Setting | |
| Gybing | |
| Tactics | |
| Rules | |
| Golden rules |
Glossary
| Glossary |
Visual Signals Used in Racing
| Visual Signals Used in Racing |