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What’s one thing you wish you’d known when you first started sailing?
Posted by American Sailing on January 13, 2026 at 10:34 amRachel Clarke writes about the 10 things she wish she knew as a new sailor:
https://americansailing.com/articles/10-things-i-wish-id-known-as-a-new-sailor/
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10 Things I Wish I’d Known as a New Sailor
10 Things I Wish I’d Known as a New Sailor shares practical lessons on confidence, safety, and seamanship learned through experience.
joseph replied 1 month, 1 week ago 3 Members · 2 Replies -
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Very good article that I could relate too. But I have a question on item 5: slowing the boat down.
Don’t you turn the boat “into the wind” and not “away from the wind,” in order to slow the boat?
Or did I misunderstand your point?
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