Several changes have been made to the current edition of The Racing Rules of Sailing.
The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) announced today that, as a result of actions taken by the ISAF Racing Rules Committee and the ISAF Council during the ISAF Annual Conference, several changes in The Racing
Rules of Sailing for 2009-2012 will take effect on 1 January 2010.

Rule 18.2(c) will be changed to prohibit a newly discovered and potentially dangerous tactic that was an unintended consequence of the current wording of this rule. The revised rule will no longer …

A Hobie Cat is a small catamaran (or two-hulled) sailboat manufactured by the Hobie Cat Company of Oceanside, California, USA. Begun as a manufacturer of surf boards in the late 1950s, Hobie (named after Hobie Alter, the company’s founder) began manufacturing catamaran sailboats in the late 1960s and has become the largest manufacturer of small catamarans in the world.
Today, Hobie’s line of products ranges from surf boards to catamaran sailboats to kayaks, though the Hobie Cat Company is most famous around the world for its catamarans. Hobie also designed a …

Seamanship is the art of operating a ship or boat. It involves a knowledge of a variety of topics and development of specialised skills. The degree of knowledge needed within these areas is dependent upon the nature of the work and the type of vessel employed by a mariner. However, the practice of good seamanship should be the goal of all..
Navigation:More than just finding a vessel’s present location, safe navigation includes predicting future location, route planning and collision avoidance.
Ship-handling:A fundamental skill of professional seamanship is being able to manoeuvre a …

Virtually anyone can be subject to sea sickness or motion sickness. In fact, 90% of the people have experienced motion sickness at one point in their lives and only veteran ocean sailors seem rather impervious to it.. Cause of seasickness
Motion sickness relates to our sense of spatial orientation, which tells the brain where the body is “in space”: what direction it is moving, what direction it is pointing, and if it is turning or standing still.
This sense of spatial orientation is regulated by complex interaction of the 4 following mechanisms:
1.Muscle …

The Points of Sail would be the most important concept to keep in mind for a beginner sailor. It helps us in understanding a sailing boat’s course in relation to the wind direction.
First, there is a distinction between the port (left) tack and the starboard (right) tack. If the wind is coming from anywhere on the port side, the boat is on port tack. Likewise if the wind is coming from the starboard side, the boat is on starboard tack. Except when head to wind, a boat will be on …