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  2. Five essentials of sailing - Wikipedia

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    Course made good (C.M.G. or Course Over Ground) - the actual route taken to achieve the journey's objecting measured over the ground. It is the resultant of the course steered and the effect on that course of any wind and tide. Sail trim - pulling the sail in when sailing upwind and letting it out when sailing downwind.

  3. Seamanship - Wikipedia

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    An example of a seamanship training establishment at the Glasgow College of Nautical Studies in the United Kingdom. Seamanship is the art, competence, and knowledge of operating a ship, boat or other craft on water. [1] The Oxford Dictionary states that seamanship is "The skill, techniques, or practice of handling a ship or boat at sea." [2]

  4. Sailing - Wikipedia

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    The physics of sailing arises from a balance of forces between the wind powering the sailing craft as it passes over its sails and the resistance by the sailing craft against being blown off course, which is provided in the water by the keel, rudder, underwater foils and other elements of the underbody of a sailboat, on ice by the runners of an ...

  5. Olympic triangle - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Olympic triangle course consists of a lap (starting with a beat or work to windward from the starting line to the top, weather or windward mark, a first reaching leg to the wing mark (also known as the gybe mark), a second reaching leg from the wing mark to the bottom or leeward mark), a hot dog (a beat to the top mark with a square run back to the bottom mark), another lap and ...

  6. Sail Canada - Wikipedia

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    Sail Canada (formerly the Canadian Yachting Association) [1] is Canada's governing body for the sport of sailing. [2] Sail Canada is a "Member National Authority" of World Sailing. [3] Organization of sailing in Canada is divided into four groups: yacht clubs, Provincial Sailing Associations, class associations, and Sail Canada itself.

  7. Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons - Wikipedia

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    Canadian Power Squadron was founded in Windsor, Ontario in 1938 after a group of boaters travelled to the Detroit Power Squadron to take the United States Power Squadrons Coastal Navigation Course. Upon their successful completion of the course, they formed the Windsor Power Squadron, closely followed by the formation of Squadrons in Sarnia ...

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  9. Course (sail) - Wikipedia

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    The course sail is the lowermost sail. In sailing, a course is a type of square sail. It is the sail set on the lowest yard on a mast. The courses are given a name derived from the mast on which they are set, so the course on the foremast may be called the fore-course or the foresail; similarly main-course or mainsail for that carried on the ...