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Dave Dellenbaugh Sailing

David Dellenbaugh is a champion helmsman, tactician, author, coach, rules expert and seminar leader who has spent his career helping sailors sail faster and smarter.Here are the learning resources that he has created to help you improve your racing skills.

The SMART Course

When David was the marketing director for North Sails Inc. in the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of his projects was a complete rewrite of the North U course books (which accompanied the popular North U seminars). Here are the chapters that David wrote for the Smart Course manual. The information in this book helped thousands of sailors sail smarter around the race course. These materials are currently out of print, but they are available here in the Speed & Smarts Subscribers' Corner.

List of articles in category The SMART Course
Title
Smart Basics
Starting Strategy and Tactics
Upwind Strategy
Upwind Tactics
Current
Downwind Strategy
Downwind Tactics
Mark Roundings