Full Description
RYA Tactics is essential for those looking to win their next race on the water. Every time a sailor heads out, they have a goal in mind and this fourth edition of RYA Tactics will help you reach it.
Fully updated for the Racing Rules of Sailing 2025-2028, the book contains cutting-edge advice on analysing weather conditions, high-speed racing, and positioning as strategy. Whether you're looking to understand wind shifts better, start faster, use a race compass, or get round the marks first, this book will get you there.
Written by world-renowned race strategist and RYA Coach of the Year Mark Rushall, and accompanied by excellent photography and detailed illustrations, your next step to winning has to involve RYA Tactics.
Contents
Acknowledgements 3
Foreword 4
Introduction 6
Key to Symbols Used in Illustrations 8
Part 1: Setting the Scene
INTRODUCTION Why Bother With a Strategy? 9
CHAPTER 1 Natural Assets: The Strategic Tools Outlined 11
CHAPTER 2 Be Your Own 'Whether' Person 35
CHAPTER 3 The State of the Regatta: Objectives, Risks, and Rewards 50
Part 2: Before the Start
INTRODUCTION Pre-start Objectives 54
CHAPTER 4 Sorting the Priorities 56
CHAPTER 5 Using the Race Compass 71
Case Study, Kiel Week, 420 Class 88
CHAPTER 6 The Pre-start 91
Part 3: The Race
CHAPTER 7 The Start 103
CHAPTER 8 The Beat 128
1 Tactical Priorities 129
2 Positioning as a Strategy 142
3 Three-hat Decision-making 163
CHAPTER 9 The Windward Mark 165
CHAPTER 10 The Reaching Legs 185
CHAPTER 11 The Run 196
CHAPTER 12 The Leeward Mark 211
CHAPTER 13 Round the Cans: Special Tactics for Club Racing 227
CHAPTER 14 Tactics and Strategy at Speed 238
CHAPTER 15 The Next Rounds 243
Glossary 266
Index 268
