This is where the highest sailing skills often form the essence of the race.
Nearly 300 people, most with weak sailing skills but strong athletic backgrounds, responded.
Because of its short length it is difficult to sail down wind in waves so children develop advanced sailing skills at a young age.
All they can determine of the boy's past is that, judging from his confident, daring sailing skills, he was once a pirate.
But that is probably just as well, because you can't improve your sailing skills if you don't live to sail another day.
It is, in effect, a way of cleaning the cobwebs off a person's sailing skills without having to kill the spider.
Because my sailing skills were quite rusty, I was given charge of the jib.
Besides improving sailing skills, all the other normal needs of everyday living must also be addressed.
For this reason, top sailors use winter racing to keep their sailing skills sharp.
Those of you who have not yet started the programme for the handicapped, please join in and spread our sailing skills to all.