Sail Trim: Overview and Resource Guide

The PYC Education Committee had another sold out course with their offering of a Hands on Sail Trim course.  This class started with a brief 30 minute lecture given by Carter White with Hallet Sails and then the students moved down to their assigned boats for 2 hours of on the water sail trim instruction.  Light wind was a challenge for the evening, but our instructors were brave and carried on!

This course was by far the most logistically challenging course the Education Committee has taken on to date.  The Course was completely volunteer driven, meaning that all of our top notch instructors (Win Fowler, Rob Haile, Carter White, Jeff Sammis and Sherry Fowler) donated their skills and time for the evening and all of our boats for the evening were also donated.  Boats that we used for the evening were:  J/29 J/100 J/109 J/42 J/44  The Education Committee would like to thank everyone again for all of their time and effort and thank the participants for for such a successful evening! 

Sail trim is what makes our sailboats move, whether its cruising or around the marks.  If you would like more information on sail trim, North U publishes a great book on the topic. Also, the Quick Guide that you received at the class is a great resource to have  as well.  If you couldn't make the class, we have this guide listed on the right of this page in our resources list.

Enjoy your boats, have fun with your newly found trim skills and sail fast!

We hope you will visit our photo gallery at the right.  Our Sail Trim Class was fortunate to have the photography talents of Scott McCatherin and Jonathan Knowles for the evening!  Thank You!