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Time Shift - The Sailing Sixties (BBC documentary)
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RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 2
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 2
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Basic guide to mainsail controls
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What do all the ropes do?
What if my boat capsizes?
How do I turn in a boat?
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RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 3
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 3
Clove Hitch knot
How to tie a bowline
How to tie a rolling hitch and how to use it to set up a herringbone tow
The Five Essentials explained - RYA video
Gybing - RYA video
How Sailing Races are Started - Flags and Honks
How to understand the Met Office Inshore Waters weather forecast (2020)
Understanding the Beaufort wind scale & a sea breeze (2020)
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 4
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 4
Oh buoy! What Colour? Jake Humphery covers IALA buoyage (2020)
Tides - Jake Humphery explains all (2020)
All about Clouds (2020)
Understanding the Beaufort wind scale & a sea breeze (2020)
What to wear
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Spandex helps keep everything in place!
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Mirror dinghy Tuning Guide with Hyde Sails' Ben McGrane (2025)
Boat Bimbling with Jonny & Sarah McGovern (2020)
More grip, less friction - David Mossman, Marlow Ropes (2020)
Rig set up (2017 Ash Shepherd)
Rig Tuning by Michael McNamara (2016 Dinghy Show)
RYA's Top 5 Technical Tips For Racing Success (2014)
P&B's Top 10 Tips For Championship Racing (2013)
Tuning your Mirror dinghy
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Simple ways to improve your boat
Improve your boat - Alex Beach
Improve your boat - Angus Carlisle
Fitness
Stretches for sailors with Emma Higson (2020)
Hiking circuit for junior sailors - Arran Holman (2020)
British Sailing Team athletes' home workouts - for junior sailors (2020)
#SailFromHome Junior fitness programme with Liam Mitchell (2020)
Seven top tips for winter fitness (2014)
Warm up video with RYA Sports Scientist Tim Jones (2014)
Staying in Sailing Shape (2014)
Physio - Lily Devine, British Sailing Team (2017)
Hiking Top Tips with Alison Young (2020)
Top Hiking Tips with Steve Cockerill - Rooster Sailing (2017)
Hiking Top Tips (Laser) - Nick Thompson (2015)
30-minute home workout for youth and adult sailors - Chris Szedlak (2020)
Another home workout for youth and adult sailors - Chris Szedlak (2020)
How to plan physical training for youth and adult sailors - Alex Hopson (2020)
Managing your training load - Youth (2020)
What does RPE mean? (Youth/adult 2020)
Why consistency is key (Youth/adult 2020)
Psychology
Coping with pressure - Junior: challenge vs threat (2020)
Coping with pressure - Youth: resources and demands (2020)
Life with the GBR Sailing Team video (2017)
Mental Skills and Visualisation video (2015)
Psychology of Sailing video (2014)
Nutrition
Nutrition Top Tips for Juniors from the British Sailing Team (2020)
How to make energy balls with BST Sailor Anna Carpenter (2020)
Making date & chocolate bars - Jess Lavery (2020)
Hydration top tips with Alex Anastasiou (2020)
Racing techniques
Windward and leeward mark decision making with Alan Williams (2020
Decision making with Hannah Mills - (2020)
Starting
Starting - Through The Eyes Of A Race Officer with Adrian Stoggall (2020)
How Sailing Races are Started - Flags and Honks
Ingredients to get a good start (Sam Whaley, 2019)
Start Line Pressure - Focus on the Processes (2018)
Pinnell on Winning - Techniques of Successful Starts
Active Mirror Crewing
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RYA Dinghy Racing Channel
Sail faster - 5 top tips from 49erFX sailors
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Increasing Upwind Speed with Penny Clark
What HAppened Today - post-racing debriefs from Mirror Championships
2019 Nationals WHAT?
Spend time on the water
Go-Fast Gear! (1973)
Share The Knowledge - Steve Cockerill (2017 Dinghy Show)
Racing With A Compass (Graham Ellis)
Sail setting & techniques
Boat Speed Fundamentals - Jonny McGoven, Luke Patience, Chris Grube (2020)
Guides to sail setting & techniques
Sail shape - make a paper model of a sail with shaped seams - Flip Foulds (2020)
Sail shape and how a sail is made from scratch - Mike McNamara (2020)
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Strategy with Mark Rushall (2020)
Strategy - Mark Rushall explains his three circles model (2020)
How the tides affect your race course with Mark Rushall (2020)
The seven rules of positioning with Mark Rushall
Use The Weather To Help Decide On Strategy with Mark Rushall (2020)
Prepare In Advance To Help Decide On Strategy with Mark Rushall (2020)
3 Golden Rules for Strategy and Tactics with Mark Rushall (2020)
Strategy & Techniques for a Race - Nick Thompson (Team GBR)
Tactics - RYA book by Mark Rushall 2019
Weather
Air stability (Youth/Adult) - Simon Rowell 2020
Air stability (Junior) - Simon Rowell 2020
Meteorology (Youth/Adult) - Simon Rowell 2020
Meteorology (Junior) - Simon Rowell 2020
Understanding The Weather - Simon Rowell (RYA, 2019)
How to build a venue guide (Junior & Youth) - Simon Rowell 2020
All about Clouds (Junior) with Jake Humphery (2020)
Sailing Weather Tips on reading local Weather & Tides - Libby Greenhalgh (2016 Dinghy Show)
Understanding the Met Office Inshore Waters weather forecast (junior) with Jake Humphery (2020)
Tactics
Talking Tactics & Rules with Mark Rushall (2021 Virtual Dinghy Show)
3 Golden Rules for Strategy and Tactics with Mark Rushall (2020)
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Try a Mirror Dinghy
Why sail a Mirror dinghy?
History
How it all started
As it was in the beginning - prototypes
Testing the original Barry Bucknell prototype & 1963 Boat Show
Time Shift - The Sailing Sixties (BBC documentary)
Original colour brochure
RYA interview about the history of the Mirror with David Henshall in 2013
BBC 'The One Show' piece from 2015
Labour as Leisure - The Mirror Dinghy and DIY Sailors
Early Mirrors were built down to a price
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RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 2
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 2
Tacking, close reach to close reach - RYA video
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The Five Essentials explained - RYA video
Basic guide to mainsail controls
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How to tie a reef knot
What do all the ropes do?
What if my boat capsizes?
How do I turn in a boat?
Gybing - RYA video
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 3
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 3
Clove Hitch knot
How to tie a bowline
How to tie a rolling hitch and how to use it to set up a herringbone tow
The Five Essentials explained - RYA video
Gybing - RYA video
How Sailing Races are Started - Flags and Honks
How to understand the Met Office Inshore Waters weather forecast (2020)
Understanding the Beaufort wind scale & a sea breeze (2020)
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 4
RYA Youth Sailing Scheme - Stage 4
Oh buoy! What Colour? Jake Humphery covers IALA buoyage (2020)
Tides - Jake Humphery explains all (2020)
All about Clouds (2020)
Understanding the Beaufort wind scale & a sea breeze (2020)
What to wear
What to wear
Spandex helps keep everything in place!
Looking after your sailing gear
Looking after your wetsuit boots
Care For Your Drysuit Zip
Transporting your Mirror dinghy - gaff rig
Transporting your Mirror dinghy - gaff rig
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