Iowa Sailing Club

Sailing And Racing Skills

These links are only a very small number of websites out there with valuable sailing and racing information. If you have a link that should be added, let us know. All links open in a new window.

• Basic Sailing
• U. Wisconsin Sailing Instruction pages
• Roper's Knot Page
• International Marine Signal Flags


• Racing
• Racing Basics, manual by Iowa Sailing Club alumnus Mark Johnson
• Laser clinic notes by Steve Bourdow
• Starting drills provided by a member of the University of Wisconsin Sailing Club
• Racing Rules from US Sailing (sailing.org)


• Fitness
• Hiking exercises, by US Laser coach Ron Rosenberg
• Hiking and knee stress article, by Shona Moss.