Some of our sailors will be sailing at a Regatta later this Spring. Learning to race is a great way to improve your sailing. Each boat requires a skipper and crew person, so even newer sailors can join in if they’d like to experience racing.

If you’ve never seen a sailboat race, here are two useful videos.

This first video, produced by a student at UGA, explains how buoys are used to mark out a race course on the water.

And here is an example of a race start from the 2013 national college sailing championship. (These are very high-level teams! It’s like the March Madness of sailing!)