One Design Tuning Video Gallery

RACE START STRATEGY   All Classes Start Strategy with Peter Isler NORTH SAILS ONE DESIGN   All Classes HOW IT'S MADE by Chris Love/Sailgroove US SAILING WEBINARS   All Classes MAINSAIL TRIM AND SHAPE by Nick Turney All Classes MATCH RACING by Dave Perry TUNING BEYOND THE GUIDE   All Classes PART 1: LOOKING AT SAILS, by Mike Ingham All Classes PART 2: APPARENT WIND, by Mike Ingham All Classes PART 3: SYMMETRY & BALANCE, by Mike Ingham All Classes PART 4: LUFF CURVE, by Mike Ingham All Classes PART 5: JIB HOLLOW, by Mike Ingham FLYING SCOT   (25Mb) Flying Scot Seminar video in Deltaville, VA - by Greg Fisher LIGHTNING   (5Mb) by Greg Fisher Mike Brock and team warming up before the Ohio Lightning Districts 2006 at Edgewater Y C. Greg Fisher comments about his trim and tuning. MELGES 24   M24 TUNING CLINIC with Andy Burdick, Vince Brun and Chris Larson Annapolis 2008 OPTIMIST   (1Mb) Introduction by Chris Snow (1.4Mb) Performing a 720° (2Mb) Main trim- sprit too tight How your sail look like when you have the sprit too tight.. and how it is supposed to look when well trimmed (2Mb) Main trim- foot too tight How your sail look like when you have the foot too tight.. and how it is supposed to look when well trimmed (1.6Mb) Downwind Gybing and rounding a mark (1.5Mb) Tacking (2Mb) Gybing (1.7Mb) r Rounding Marks THISTLE   (4Mb) by Greg Fisher Short Preview by Greg Fisher (6.6 Mb) by Greg Fisher Mike Ingham with teammates Kyle Finefrock and Sarah Paisley rolling through some nice smooth roll tacks. A picture is worth a thousand words..and with the narration I hope you might see what makes Mike one of the best boat handlers in the class! (6.6 Mb) by Greg Fisher Great shots of great spinnaker trim and some suggestions on main trim for even better speed. Chip and Wayne are our subjects and we filmed this on Wednesday before the regatta started. (8 Mb) by Greg Fisher Check out Joe's great approach and start...nice technique and placement! (10 Mb) by Greg Fisher In this clip we watch closely mainsail trim and the effects of cunningham, vang and sheet...and how they all work together. There are a number of movie stars in this one! (11Mb) by Greg Fisher This clip is about 3 1/2 minutes long and in it we watch as Vlasta, Bill and Natalie try 2 different styles of initiating the tack. My favorite is to slowly trim the mainsheet while keeping the boat flat...the other option is to heel the boat to leeward and allow the increased heel and helm spin the boat up into the wind. Take a look! We also show why back feeding the bolt rope at the bottom of your main into the mast slot is a good idea. Enjoy! If you have any questions don't hesitate to write or give me a call. I am glad to help!   Comments received about the video clips: "Hey Greg....Thank you for the Thistle video clips. I read the Thistle newsgroup daily, enjoy the discussions... I especially liked the roll tack video. I bought #1717 about this time last year and I wish I would have discovered the Thistle years ago. Thanks again for the videos". John Bauer Thanks for posting the video clips from the Thistle MMW on the web site. I've been wanting to teach my crew (my kids) how to roll tack and the videos will be very helpful in giving them the vision of what we're trying to accomplish." Bill Pfund Send us your comments

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