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Dinghy Sailing Techniques: Downwind light wind sail controls

by Tom Chamberlain, RYA 4 May 04:00 PDT
Dinghy Sailing Techniques: Downwind light wind sail controls © Tom Chamberlain / RYA

In this video, Shaun Priestley demonstrates some of the key settings for your sail controls when sailing downwind in light winds. For this example, we are looking at wind speeds between 2 to 7 knots.

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