Speed & Smarts is a bi-monthly newsletter packed with tips to improve your racing performance. It's written by winning AC tactician David Dellenbaugh, and each issue has 16 pages full of instructional advice on tactics, strategy, speed, boathandling and rules (plus there's no advertising!).
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David Dellenbaugh, winning Americas Cup tactician, is the author of Speed & Smarts and Learn The Racing Rules.
The first, and by far the most important, thing about tacking in waves is that you should try not to do it! Tacking is costly enough under the best conditions, but when you make a maneuver like this in choppy water you lose a lot. Of course . . . MORE
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